Schools in the ACT

Information provided by the ACT Department of Education and Training in 2003 and from “75 years of Catholic Education in Canberra”, supplement to The Canberra Times, 5 March 2003.

Further information on each school may be available on the Department’s website.

Table 1	Opening Dates of Government Primary Schools
Table 2	Opening Dates of Government High Schools
Table 3	Opening Dates of Government Secondary Colleges
Table 4	Opening Dates of Government Special Schools
Table 5	Opening Dates of Catholic Schools
Table 6	Opening Dates of Non-Government, Non-Catholic Schools

Last Day at North Ainslie Primary School, 1974

Table 1: Opening dates of Government Primary Schools

School	Open date	Closing/amalgamation date
Ainslie	1927
Aranda	1969
Arawang	1989
Bonython	1992
Calwell	1989
Campbell	1961
Chapman	1975
Charles Conder	1994
Charnwood	1975
Chifley	1966	1989 closed and reopened as Melrose
Chisholm	1986
Cook	1969
Co-operative	1978
Curtin	1983
Downer	1962	1989
Duffy	1973
Duntroon	1914	1971
Evatt	1974
Fadden	1985
Farrer	1970
Fisher	1972	1989
Florey	1989
Flynn	1974	2006
Forrest	1958
Fraser	1979
Garran	1967
Gilmore	1983
Giralang	1977
Gold Creek	1996
Gordon	1993
Gowrie	1983
Griffith	1955	1995
Hackett	1964
Hall	1911	2006
Hartley Street	1971
Hawker	1976
Higgins	1971
Holder	1972	1991
Holt	1973
Hughes	1964
Isabella Plains	1988
Kaleen	1976
Latham	1972
Lyneham	1959
Lyons	1966
Macgregor	1968
Macquarie	1968
Majura	1989
Maribyrnong	1979
Mawson	1968
Melba	1973	Renamed Mt Rogers Community School 1998
Melrose	1989	2006
Miles Franklin	1980
Monash	1982
Mt Neighbour	1975	2006
Mt Rogers Community School	1998
Narrabundah	1952
Ngunnawal	1997
North Ainslie	1958
North Curtin	1966	1983 North Curtin renamed Curtin
Page	1970	1989
Palmerston	1995
Pearce	1967	1989
Red Hill	1960
Richardson	1984
Rivett	1972	2006
Scullin	1970	1989
South Curtin	1965	1983
Southern Cross	1989
Spence	1977
Taylor	1978
Telopea Park	1923
Tharwa	1899	2006
Theodore	1991
Torrens	1968
Turner	1953
Urambi	1976
Uriarra	1936	2001
Village Creek	1975
Wanniassa	1976
Wanniassa Hills	1978
Waramanga	1970	1989 reopened as Arawang
Watson	1964	1989 and reopened as Majura
Weetangera	1973
Weston	1971	2006
Yarralumla	1956

Table 2: Opening dates of Government High Schools

School	Open date	Closing/amalgamation date
Alternative Education Program	1998
Alfred Deakin	1989
Belconnen	1971
Calwell	1990
Campbell	1965
Canberra	1938	Relocated from North Canberra in 1969
Canberra High	1938	Relocated to Belconnen in 1969
Caroline Chisholm	1985
Charnwood	1981	1996
Deakin	1966	Renamed Alfred Deakin High School after amalgamation with Woden Valley High School 1989
Dickson High	1962	Dickson Secondary College in 1976
Ginninderra	1974	2005
Gold Creek	1998
Holder	1975	Amalgamated with Weston Creek in 1991 to become Stromlo High School. Holder campus closed in 1993.
Kaleen