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Golden Square Primary School (GSPS) 5531 was established on Laurel St in 1873 in response to a burgeoning local population and economy associated with the boom of the goldfields and the work and wealth they generated.  In 1956 Maple Street Primary School was established, a brisk walk just across the highway as an annex of GSPS, which then graduated to become its own school in the 1970s. The next significant phase began in 2009 when a merger of the two schools was initiated. This being in response to changing demographics and falling enrolments. The merger of the two schools offered an opportunity via a School Regeneration Project to build a new, contemporary design school for the Golden Square community.

From 2010 to 2012, the school operated as a single school on two campuses, one at Laurel St and the other at Maple St. At the beginning of 2013, students and staff from the Maple St campus were relocated onto the Laurel St campus under the banner of Working As One - at the same effectively providing a greenfield site for the construction of the new Golden Square Primary School on the Maple St campus.  On Tuesday June 9th, 2015,  the school community conducted a symbolic walk from the Laurel St campus to the Maple St campus heralding the school¿s first full day of operation in the new school building.

There are 13 generalist classes in the 2026 year with the junior years being straight grades and the middle and senior years being composite classes. The 2026 Student Family Occupation & Employment index (SFOE) is 0.4600. This figure has decreased and now stabilis…