Key information
- Address:
- 4 Apollo Street, Mansfield 3722
- Opened:
- 1 October 1872
- School type:
- Primary
- School number:
- 1112
- Other names:
- Mansfield Common School. Mansfield State School
- Email:
- mansfield.ps@education.vic.gov.au
- Phone:
- 03 5775 2325
- 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 Mansfield Primary School
1870s
Mansfield opened as a common school in 1872. It replaced No. 429. The first head teacher was John Elvins.
The school became a state school at some stage between 1873 and 1878.
1909
The Department of Education decided to open an Agricultural School based lobbying from locals.
1911
A building for the Agricultural School was built on Mansfield's site for this secondary school.
1916
The School Committee complained about the amount of space the Agricultural School took up on the site. A meeting was held and it was decided to combine both schools as a higher elementary school that included the secondary classes.
1924
The school became a higher elementary school in 1924.
1930s to 1940s
The school continued as a higher elementary school apart from during World War Two, when it was classified as a central school. More classrooms were required and the buildings from closing local schools were added to the site.
1950s
Classroom extensions were added between 1954 to 1958.
1963
Mansfield High School opened in 1963 and the secondary classes moved to the new school. Mansfield returned to being a primary school.
1970
The school was renamed Mansfield Primary School in 1970.
2022
Mansfield 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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