#OnThisDay 16 April 1880 school was made compulsory for children aged 6 to 14 years in NSW. The Public Instruction Act 1880 required attendance for a period of not less than 70 days every half-year. As a result the number of schools and pupils increased throughout the State.
Source: Education NSW. Public Instruction Act 1880
We hold School Admission Registers for NSW public schools. We haven't got every admission register ever created and we don't have them for all schools but we certainly have quite a range. See what you can find in these records.
In NSW education has been compulsory since 1880 and the local school is often at the centre of the local community. Our school records contain a wealth of information about the people who attended school, their teachers and school buildings in which they worked. This webinar focuses on how to research students, teachers and school sites in the NSW State school system.
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