Mitcham Primary School is a South Australian State school serving the Mitcham area and situated on Hillview Road, Kingswood. It is the oldest continuously operating school in South Australia.[1][2] It has an enrolment of approximately 766 students from Reception to Year 7 and an Out of School Hours Care Program. The school predominantly serves the suburbs of Kingswood, Mitcham, Hawthorn, Netherby and Torrens Park. The school opened in 1847 with Thomas Mugg[3] as the teacher[4] in a hut on Mitcham Reserve. The school moved to the Mitcham Institute in 1870[5] and then to a purpose built school on Bulls Creek Road (Belair Road) in 1880. A new Primary school opened on the current site in Kingswood in 1953 and the Infant school and Primary came together on this site in 1981.[6]
- ^ "No BER problems at Julia's primary school". Jodie Minus. The Australian. 28 June 2010. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
- ^ Cornwall.C. Mitcham School 150 Years of History: 1847–1997. Griffin Press, 1997, p. ix.
- ^ Mitcham Chronology retrieved 6 March 2014
- ^ Cornwall.C. Mitcham School 150 Years of History: 1847–1997. Griffin Press Press, 1997, p. 7.
- ^ Cornwall.C. Mitcham School 150 Years of History: 1847–1997. Griffin Press Press, 1997, p. xiv.
- ^ Cornwall.C. Mitcham School 150 Years of History: 1847–1997. Griffin Press Press, 1997, p. xv.