Clifton School, also known as the Clifton Area School, was one of the original schools in the Brunswick region.
Following a promise of a school for Clifton Agriculture Area settlers, the Clifton family gave two five-acre blocks, on the corner of Clifton and Alverstoke Roads, to the Public Works Department with the intention that one be used for a school and one for a hall.
However, only the hall was built and used as a school, which commenced in 1905.
Miss Emily Ker (Emmy) Clifton taught at the school from 1911 to 1947.
In March 1921, the school building and its contents were destroyed by bushfire. With no assistance from the Education Department, schooling for the following month was held in Algernon Clifton’s open shed, using borrowed materials. By August 1921, the Clifton Agricultural Hall had been rebuilt, and the school reopened in this building with 11 pupils, attended by children of many of the settling families.
In 1967, the Clifton Area School was closed, and the building was taken to the Brunswick Recreation Grounds and was used by the Agricultural Society as a ladies’ committee room.
The building has since been relocated to Alverstoke Farm.
