An application was submitted in 1868 for a government school at Menindee.New South Wales Government Gazette, 9 April 1868 (Issue No. 88), page 1048. Classes began in a temporary structure in 1869.South Australian Register (Adelaide), 1 November 1869, page 3. In June 1873 it was reported that the Council of Education in Sydney was experiencing "great difficulty in providing a teacher for the public school at Menindie… on account of the distance of that place from Sydney".South Australian Register (Adelaide), 24 June 1873, page 3.
