Boxwood No 2089
Formerly Lime Kilns
Once known as Lime Kilns, the school was established officially on 1st of October 1878 with Ernest
Burgess as Head Teacher. Burgess had conducted an earlier school in a leased bark hut from August
of that year. The school was on a lime and wood reserve about 4 miles North-East of SS1527 Dookie
South, and 5 miles North-West of Devenish. A portable building was erected and occupied in
October 1880. The school survived closure threats until 1918, despite low enrolments. Requests to
reopen the school were unsuccessful until in 1923 it was moved to Hooper’s property and opened
under Miss V. O’Farrell, continuing on the new Boxwood site until unstaffed in August 1951.
Boxwood reopened in February 1954 as a full-time school but finally closed early in 1970.
Burgess as Head Teacher. Burgess had conducted an earlier school in a leased bark hut from August
of that year. The school was on a lime and wood reserve about 4 miles North-East of SS1527 Dookie
South, and 5 miles North-West of Devenish. A portable building was erected and occupied in
October 1880. The school survived closure threats until 1918, despite low enrolments. Requests to
reopen the school were unsuccessful until in 1923 it was moved to Hooper’s property and opened
under Miss V. O’Farrell, continuing on the new Boxwood site until unstaffed in August 1951.
Boxwood reopened in February 1954 as a full-time school but finally closed early in 1970.
