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BADGE, COMMEMORATIVE - KARRAGULLEN PRIMARY SCHOOL 25TH ANNIVERSARY

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1992

Overview

Round school badge. Orange background with black print showing replica of school and lettering.

Text on front reads [1967-1992 / 25th Anniversary / Karragullen Primary School].

Back of the badge is text, company logo and a metal safety pin.

Historical information

A commemorative badge made for the 25th anniversary of the opening of Karragullen Primary School in 1992. The school had its roots as a sawmill company school in the 1890s before a state school opened in 1913. In 1920 the school moved to Brookton Highway before the school was once again moved in 1967 to its last location.

It was around the 1910s the area moved away from timber felling and into developing orchards.

Karragullen Primary School was one of many small schools that existed in the hills of the City of Armadale area. Its closure was rationalised by the then Minister for Education Colin Barnett as a decline in student numbers. This was the fate of many other small schools in more rural areas of Western Australia.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-33-AK2000.41B

Inscriptions and markings

[BADGE A MINT]

Year

1992

Statement of significance

MEDIUM

Made for the 25th anniversary of Karragullen Primary School in its then location in 1992.

At the end of 1999 it was closed as well as many other smaller schools in Western Australia due to rationlisation by the then Minister for Education Colin Barnett, later Premier of Western Australia.

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Thursday, 2 July, 2026

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