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Kew Primary School (No. 1075)

Learn about the history of Kew Primary School, one of Victoria's oldest public schools.

Key information

Address:
20 Peel Street, Kew 3101
Opened:
1 November 1870
School type:
Primary
School number:
1075
Other names:
Kew Common School, Kew State School
Email:
kew.ps@education.vic.gov.au
Phone:
03 9853 8325
Status:
Open

Location of records

Digital records are kept at the school. To request access, contact the school directly.

Permanent hard copy records (such as enrolment records, 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 academic and 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(opens in a new window)

Phone: 1800 359 140(opens in a new window)

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The history of Kew Primary School

  • 1870

    Kew opened as a common school in 1870. Common schools No. 346 and No. 356 closed when they combined to form this new school. The school building was on the site of the current school.

  • 1873

    The school became a state school in 1873. The first head teacher was J. Gladtone. He was formally the head teacher of No. 356.

  • 1910

    A new school building opened in 1910. It was used for classes for the lower grades.

    Black and white photograph of the Kew school building with workers in the garden in front of the school
    Kew Primary School in 1910 when it was Kew State School. Source: State Library of Victoria

  • 1950s

    Burwood Technical School used classrooms in the school from 1954 to 1956. Glendonald School for the Deaf used classrooms for twelve months in 1957.

  • 1970

    The school was renamed Kew Primary School in 1970.

  • 2022

    Kew 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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