Nurcoung is a locality in Victoria,

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. It is located in the

Shire of West Wimmera The Shire of West Wimmera is a local government area in the western part of the Wimmera region of Victoria, Australia, located in the western part of the state. It covers an area of and in June 2018 had a population of 3,862. It includes the to ...

local government area. At the 2016 census, Nurcoung recorded a population of 40.

Nurcoung State School

Nurcoung State School was a

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located in the Parish of Nurcoung. The school officially opened on 11 September 1886 to serve the educational needs of children belonging to the new selectors on Spring Hill Station. The surveyed site of the school was in the centre of the Parish of Nurcoung being approximately 37 miles west of

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and 12 miles northwest of

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. According to an official record, the first head teacher was Miss M. Manckton. Before the Nurcoung State School was built, the teachers and students used an old farmhouse of Thomas Sheriff. The school obtained desks from a closed school at Booroopki, west of Goroke. When the Nurcoung school closed down, the building was taken to Goroke P-12 College to be used as a classroom.

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* Towns in Victoria (state) Wimmera {{GrampiansAU-geo-stub