Key information
- Address:
- 91 Commercial Road, Koroit 3282
- Opened:
- 21 November 1857
- School type:
- Primary
- School number:
- 618
- Other names:
- Koroit School, Koroit State School, Koroit Primary School
- Email:
- koroit.ps@education.vic.gov.au
- Phone:
- 03 5565 8332
- 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 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 Koroit And District Primary School
1857
Koroit opened in 1857. The school was located on what is now the Victoria Park Recreation Reserve. There were 25 students enrolled.
1878
The school became a state school in 1878. It moved to a new site on Boundary Road in a new building. The head teacher at the time was A. Abercombie.
1970
The school was renamed Koroit Primary School in 1970.
1981
Koroit and District Primary School building in 1981. Source: John. T. Collins and the State Library of Victoria 2022
Koroit and District 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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