St Kevin's Primary School

St Kevin’s School opened on 28th of April 1924 under the parish of St Anthony’s Glenhuntly with an enrolment of 51 students, Prep to Grade 8. By the end of the year the attendance had grown to 92. In 1928, St Kevin’s Parish was formed with Father Conlon as Parish priest. By 1931 the enrolment was 218. This peaked in 1956 with 409 students. Two Presentations Sisters, Sisters Bonaventure and Patrick were the first teachers at St Kevin’s, who, in those early pioneering days, often walked to and from Gardenvale to Ormond until the bus service became more reliable.

Originally, the school consisted of a hall used as a Church for Mass with three rooms upstairs and a nun’s room. In 1955 the current Church was built, which then allowed the school to be solely used for educational purposes. The modern up-to-date facilities that now exist are as a result of several refurbishments and additions to the original building.