Topic summary
Beech Forest
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Beech Forest, Victoria.
History
Beech Forest Primary School opened on 29 July 1895 as Weeaproinah State School. It briefly closed in October 1900 after being unable to continue to lease the rented school building and reopened in another building "on the main Otway Ridge" in 1901. The second building burned down around 1910, at which time it moved to its final, permanent site and changed its name to Beech Forest. Many families shifted to the Lavers Hill Consolidated School when it opened in 1953; however, the school remained open as a number of Beech Forest parents refused to move. The school closed on 1 January 1981.