St Matthew's Catholic School is a

Catholic school Catholic schools are Parochial school, parochial pre-primary, primary and secondary educational institutions administered in association with the Catholic Church. , the Catholic Church operates the world's largest parochial schools, religious, no ...

located in Lewis Street,

Mudgee Mudgee () is a town in the Central West (New South Wales), Central West of New South Wales, Australia. It is in the broad fertile Cudgegong River valley north-west of Sydney and is the largest town in the Mid-Western Regional Council Local gov ...

, New South Wales, Australia teaching from Kindergarten to Year 12.

History

A Catholic school was first established in Mudgee in the 19th century. Leading Australian author

Henry Lawson Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson (17 June 1867 – 2 September 1922) was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period ...

studied there for a time but struggled to find friends due to deafness and left school early. A new school in Mudgee south was finished in April 1912. The same week tenders were called for a new Catholic School. July 1914 saw tenders called for a new high school building completed in 1916. In 1992, part of the school was burnt down by vandals. A new school was rebuilt on the site. The school currently has approximately 600 students in attendance. As of the end of the 2008 school year, a new secondary building has been confirmed and will go from years 7–12.

References

Catholic primary schools in New South Wales Roman Catholic Diocese of Bathurst (Australia) Mudgee Catholic secondary schools in New South Wales {{NewSouthWales-school-stub