Key information
- Address:
- 165 Great Alpine Road, Harrietville 3741
- Opened:
- 1 July 1866
- School type:
- Primary
- School number:
- 843
- Other names:
- Harrietville Common School, Harrietville State School
- Email:
- harrietville.ps@education.vic.gov.au
- Phone:
- 03 5759 2533
- Status:
- Open
Location of enrolment records
Digital records are kept at the school. To request access, contact the school directly.
Permanent hard copy records (such as enrolment registers, class photographs, yearbooks and school council papers) are held in the Department of Education’s archive.
To request access, contact the department’s records team.
Long-term temporary hard copy records (such as student health and wellbeing files and staff personnel files) are kept at the school.
To request access, contact the school directly.
Contact the Department of Education records team
If you’re not sure whether the records you need are digital or hard copy, the records team can check for you.
Email: archives.records@education.vic.gov.au
Phone: 1800 359 140
The history of Harrietville Primary School
1866
Harrietville opened as a common school in 1866. The head teacher was David B. Young.
1870s
The school became a state school at some stage between 1873 and 1878.
1900
By around 1900, there were 300 students enrolled at the school and five teachers.
1912
The original school was renovated. A house for the teacher was built. The first schoolhouse was kept as a classroom.
1921
Several local mines closed. The number of students enrolled at the school dropped to about 60 as mining families moved away.
1957
The number of students enrolled at the school dropped below 20.
1970
The school was renamed Harrietville Primary School in 1970.
2022
Harrietville Primary School is still in operation.
Find more information about this school
The Public Records Office (PROV) is the archive of Victoria's State and local government. They look after some of our oldest school records, and we can use these records to help us understand what school life used to be like.
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