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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