An Education Department 1920 publication commemorating teachers and staff that had served in the First World War had appendices showing how much each school had raised for the Department’s War Relief Fund.
This was Metropolitan District Area 4; the complete list is given as an indication of the schools and their approximate size during the war years.
A total of £422,470.15.8 was raised, the totals are only shown here for each of the Darebin schools (West Preston opened in January, 1915, all other schools operated for the entire war period). Fairfield’s £1,253.18.1 was the highest in the Area, just pipping Prince’s Hill in Carlton, £1,246.7.2d.
Schools of over 1,000 Pupils
1490 Alfred-crescent, North Fitzroy
2711 Fairfield £1,253.18.1
1401 Northcote (Helen Street) £777.11.6
Schools of over 800 Pupils
3139 Northcote (Wales Street) £998.18.2
2955 Princes Hill, Carlton
Schools of over 400 Pupils
3110 North Fitzroy
824 Preston South (Hotham Street) £511.9.2
3146 Spensley-street, Clifton Hill
3889 Thornbury (Hutton Street) £504.7.0
Schools of over 300 Pupils
3179 Brunswick North
Schools of over 200 Pupils
2436 Ivanhoe
1494 Preston (Tyler Street) £252.6.3
3885 Preston West (Murray Road) £209.14.11
Schools of over 100 Pupils
1125 Broadford
2062 Greensborough
294 Heidelberg
3605 Austin Hospital
1003 Nillumbuk
Schools of over 50 Pupils
3590 Coburg North
1970 Doncaster
2096 Doncaster East
209 Eltham
1134 Panton Hills
2090 Whittlesea
12 Warrandyte
664 Wallan
Schools of over 20 Pupils
1666 Arthur’s Creek
1915 Bundoora
143* Campbellfield
3618 Darebin
1477 Epping
3477 Eden Park
727 Glen Vale
3939 Hurstbridge
945 Hazel Glen
195 Kalkallo
2105 Kangaroo Ground
3315 Kinglake Township
488 Mernda
128 Queenstown
2959 Research
3300 Scrubby Creek
3660 * Sutherland Home
1975 South Morang
1395 Templestowe
631 Thomastown
2054 Tanck’s Corner
2234 Upper Reedy Creek
1277 Wandong
1861 Wollert
697 Yan Yean
Schools with less than 20 Pupils
1476 Beveridge
1653 Colbinane
2188 Kinglake
3255 Kinglake West
1495 Kilmore East
3594 Queenstown North
3690 Streamville
3947 Strathewen
3293 Sunday Creek
3243 Tyaak
1244 Upper Plenty
2039 Upper Diamond Creek
3476 Warrandyte South
* The Sutherland Home was a privately-run orphanage school in Diamond Creek endorsed by the Education Department
(The numbering system was never explained – South Preston has always been 824 (even when I was there in the 1950s) but is believed to be the oldest functioning school in Victoria, so obviously there was no time factor involved)
