The early school had been constructed on land that had been leased from local citizen Mr J. Ainsworth.

The school had two cupboards to store stationery and other items. The building was said to be very cold in winter and hot in summer.

Most pupils walked to school, others rode their bicycles and some rode ponies or were dropped off by horse-drawn vehicles. Sulky or spring carts were not an uncommon sight at the school.

All classes were accommodated within the one room.

Pupils were expected to be all lined up by 9am in front of the school.

The teacher would inspect each child's hands for cleanliness before examining their boots or shoes to see that they were fairly clean.

When the teacher was satisfied, the pupils were marched into the school building.

Every Monday morning, and prior to World War One, the Raglan pupils attended a flag-raising ceremony during which they recited: "I honour my god, I serve my king and I salute the flag."

Lessons would have already been written up on two large blackboards.

Initially, juniors sat three or four at a desk, but this ratio changed later.

A site was selected for the proposed village of Raglan on May 1, 1856, by Mr J.B. Richards, who was the Commissioner of Crown Lands at Bathurst at the time.

The village was to be situated on the Sydney Road approximately halfway between the Denison Bridge and the Woodside Inn at Glanmire.

The village was named after a British Army officer who was at one time Commander of the British Forces in the East and also fought in several wars, including the Crimean War.

The Field Marshal or Lord Raglan had died on June 28 the previous year.

As it turned out, the village of Raglan was not gazetted until March 20, 1885, almost 30 years later.

The village did little until the railway arrived in 1873 and blocks of land were sold for £8 per acre.

Once John Sherman's Terminus Hotel was built, other services followed, such as a post office, police station, a church and, of course, the public school.

Being a railway terminal for a time, there were numbers of families with children living in the hotels and canvas tents nearby.

Prior to the opening of a government school, 24 children were being taught in a provisional school.

It had been established by the New South Wales Council of Education, which had been written to during October 1870.

Miss Elizabeth Lawson was transferred to be their teacher by then and there were 18 pupils.

As was normal practice at the time, several local residents formed a local committee to raise money to establish a school.

With a suitable building constructed, the committee offered the building to the Council of Education to lease and staff it.

The Council of Education consented to the proposition and a public school was established at Raglan during mid-April 1874.

The local committeemen at the time included Messrs. F. Smith, Joseph Ainsworth, Edward Hoggs, Daniel Davison, Charles Tindale and Edward Heaton.

A little over a year later, the Council of Education acquired the property and building, paying £50 for the privilege.

The first Public School Board was selected and appointed on March 23, 1875.

The new members included Messrs. Charles Tindale, William Kite, Joseph Ainsworth Jnr., Benjamin Cutler and Edward Heaton, some of whom were on the previous school committee.

By mid-1911, enrolments had fallen to just nine and the Minister for Public Instruction closed the school.

Arrangements were formulated to go by train to attend the nearby Kelso Public School, but the railway timetable changed.