About Millner Primary School

Millner Primary School was established by the Northern Territory Department of Education (now known as Department of Education Employment and Training, DEET) in 1968.

The primary school is located in Sabine Road and the pre-school is located in Robinson Road. The school is close to Rapid Creek in Darwin's northern suburbs adjacent to Jape Homemaker Village. Millner Primary School serves a small urban community which is clearly defined by the boundaries created by the main roads of MacMillian Road, Trower Road and by Rapid Creek. In addition a cohort of students comes from the Indigenous community of Minmarama and Kalaluk in Coconut Grove. The suburb of Millner is an older established community with a relatively high percentage of government housing commission homes.

Millner offers a blend of teaching styles including traditional closed classrooms as well as shared open space team delivery. The school has a Computer Resource Room, an Art Room and 14 classrooms in two main teaching blocks around a central quadrangle. There is a maximum class size of 27 students. In 2006 composite classes provide a range of learning/teaching contexts which catered for individual learning styles and abilities. Millner Primary School has established itself as a successful community school in which both parents and teachers work together to provide the best possible educational experiences for its students.

Pandanus at nearby Rapid Creek

In 2006, Millner Primary School has 17 teachers (including principal and assistant principal), six administrative staff and one Indigenous member of staff employed as an AIEW. The School Council employed three staff on contracts and during the year approximately 20 casual and part time staff as Inclusion Support Assistants, Tutors, and Part-Time Instructors.