Clair Morton
ONE hundred and ten years after being established, the tiny
Mallan Public School has been closed down.
The NSW Education Department
officially closed the school last week.
Last year Mallan Public School
started with six enrolled students, but by the end of the 2012 school year there
were only four students remaining.
The school has had quite a history of
closing and re-opening — it was originally opened in 1902 but closed in 1909,
and then re-opened from 1927 to 1932, before opening its doors once again in
1955.
It was made a public school in 1957 with the Department of Education
providing a permanent building that was completed the following year.
For more on this story, see Monday’s edition of The Guardian (21/01/13).
