Key information
- Address:
- Scarsdale, 3351
- Opened:
- 1 January 1862
- Closed:
- 31 December 1926
- School type:
- Primary
- School number:
- 606
- Other names:
- Staffordshire Reef Common School
The history of Staffordshire Reef State School
1862
Staffordshire Reef opened as a common school in 1862.
The first head teacher was Thomas Jamieson.
The Staffordshire Reef township got its name from 3 miners who came from Staffordshire in England and who found a reef of gold there.
1870s
The school became a state school at some stage between 1873 and 1878.
1926
Staffordshire Reef State School closed in 1926.
The last teacher was Miss O. Guy.
The timber schoolhouse was moved to the school at Mount Bute. It later burnt down in the 1944 bushfires.
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