Nungarin Primary School to close permanently on 31 December 2026

The Minister for Education has declared that Nungarin Primary School, on Danberrin Road, Nungarin WA 6490, will permanently close on 31 December 2026. The declaration was published in the Western Australian Government Gazette No. 144 of Tuesday, 10 November 2026, under the heading Education at page 2627, as notice ED401. It is made under the School Education Act 1999, pursuant to sections 56(1)(b) and 58(2)(b)(ii).

The notice is titled “Declaration of Permanent School Closure” and takes the form of a formal statement of notice rather than a narrative instrument. It reads, in its operative part, that notice is hereby given that the Minister for Education has declared that Nungarin Primary School, Danberrin Road, Nungarin WA 6490 will permanently close on 31 December 2026. The Western Australian Government Gazette is published by authority of the Government Printer for the State of Western Australia, in Perth, on Tuesday and Friday of each week unless disrupted by public holidays or unforeseen circumstances.

The statutory basis of the declaration

The closure rests on a specific statutory footing and a fixed operative date, both stated in the published text:

• Act: School Education Act 1999
• Provisions invoked: sections 56(1)(b) and 58(2)(b)(ii)
• Notice identifier: ED401
• Gazette heading and page: Education, page 2627
• School affected: Nungarin Primary School, Danberrin Road, Nungarin WA 6490
• Operative date of closure: 31 December 2026

The notice is expressed as a declaration by the Minister for Education — the portfolio holder named in the text — rather than as a decision of a department or board. No delegate, signatory or departmental officer is identified in the published entry.

Questions the notice leaves unanswered

The gazetted entry is confined to the fact and date of closure. It does not set out the reasons for the decision, the number of students currently enrolled at Nungarin Primary School, the staffing positions affected, or the arrangements proposed for students and staff once the closure takes effect. It also contains no statement on the future use or disposal of the Danberrin Road site.

Those omissions mean the published record establishes the legal endpoint — a permanent closure dated 31 December 2026 — without documenting the transition measures that would accompany it. Readers seeking enrolment data, consultation records or redeployment details will not find them in notice ED401; the gazette text is a single operative statement followed immediately by the next item of business.

A short education entry in a four-part edition

The 10 November 2026 edition of the Western Australian Government Gazette carries four content headings, and the Education item is the first and briefest of them:

• Education — page 2627
• Local Government — page 2627
• Planning — page 2629
• Public Notices — page 2630

The education content of the edition consists solely of notice ED401, occupying a fraction of a single page before the Local Government section begins with matters under the Local Government Act 1995. The gazette’s own publishing details note that copy for the Tuesday edition must be lodged with the Publications Officer, Department of the Premier and Cabinet, by 12 noon on the preceding Friday.

The practical effect of the publication is to fix a public, legally recorded end date for the school. Because the operative date falls on the last day of 2026, Nungarin Primary School will cease to operate as a primary school at the close of that year, and the declaration now stands as the authoritative public record of the decision for families, staff and anyone dealing with the school’s affairs. The same edition also sets out the gazette’s Christmas and New Year publishing schedule, which confirms no edition on Friday 25 December 2026, Friday 1 January 2027 or Tuesday 5 January 2027, so the closure date will pass between editions.

Source: Western Australian Government Gazette, No. 144, 10 November 2026, Education, p. 2627 (official reference: ED401).