Humpty Doo Primary School is located in the Darwin Rural Area. It's colourful history spans 25 years and in that time has grown to be the largest school in the rural area with a current enrolment of 528 children from Preschool to Year Seven.

After Cyclone Tracy, which demolished the city of Darwin in 1974, there was a steady flow of residents to the Humpty Doo area. In 1976 the Education Department through the Town Planning Branch sought school sites for both Humpty Doo and Berry Springs. The site for Humpty Doo School was to serve the southern portion of the area between Howard Springs and the Arnhem Highway as far south as Noonamah as well as some of the area between the Stuart Highway and Middle Point. As a result 12 hectares of Crown land fronting the Arnhem Highway was set aside for a school site known as Section 358 Hundred of Strangways.

The founding Principal of Humpty Doo School was Mr. Frank Hoschke who was appointed from Ludmilla School. Classes were conducted in the stage area and two classrooms at Howard Springs School before moving to the Humpty Doo site at the beginning of 2nd term 1980.

The school took its name from the name of the local area. There are many stories which give clues as to how the area got it's name. On 30th April, 1987 the "Litchfield Times" published and article on the origin of the name "Humpty Doo" quoting A.W. Reed who stated that a white settler, who made occasional trips to Darwin, when asked how he was getting on replied "everything's humpty doo". Further research revealed that in 1908 the Government Resident of the Northern Territory in a report referred to a station as "Humpiti Doo", the name meaning upside down or mixed up. During the First World War the Army used the word "Humpiti Doo" to indicate that a morse code had been sent.

Below is a placeholder map of Humpty Doo Primary School, and a little of the surrounding area.