Introduction
Mount Waverley Primary School No. 3432 opened on 24 April 1906.
For the pioneering families of Mount Waverley life was hard and amusements were few. Mount Waverley was a rural area, the land on which homes now stand was being farmed as orchards, market gardens and dairy farms. Before the school was opened local children had to travel up to 5 kilometres each way to attend schools at Black Flat (now known as Glen Waverley), Tally Ho (now known as Burwood East) or Burwood.
During the early days of the school the highlight of the year for the children was the annual school picnic at Brighton or Hampton beach to which the children were transported in horse drawn wagons. Other highlights were the school concert and the fire crackers for the celebration of Empire Day.
Very little development took place in the district and the school population fluctuated between 30 and 60 pupils until about 1950. Over the next twenty years the district population soared which resulted in a rapidly increasing enrolment as well as the opening of a number of neighbouring schools - Amstel, Bayview, Essex Heights, Jordanville South, Pinewood, Sussex Heights, Syndal, Syndal South and Waverley North. By the mid 1990s the aging population had resulted in many of them being closed.