Schools and Childcare
The area contains a government primary school — Clovelly Park Primary School — which caters to approximately 300 students and includes a New Arrivals Program (NAP) for young migrant students. The nearest government secondary school is Mitchell Park's Hamilton Secondary College (formerly Mitchell Park Technical College). St Bernadette's School in St. Marys is a lower-primary Catholic school, teaching from reception to grade 5, and is located on the other (eastern) side of South Road. Sacred Heart College Middle School in Mitchell Park provides Catholic schooling for boys in grades 6-9, while Westminster School is an independent Uniting Church school catering for approximately 1000 students from reception to year 12, and is located in the nearby suburb of Marion.
There is no kindergarten within the suburb, but Mitchell Park Kindergarten is close by, and the suburb houses an ABC Learning Centre which provides childcare.
A plan to convert an existing shopping complex on South Road into an independent primary school for the Exclusive Brethren was initially approved by the City of Marion's Development Assessment Panel, before being successfully challenged in the Supreme Court by a local business owner.
Clovelly Park Primary School houses the office of Family Life SA which delivers programs and provides resources on sexuality education to schools around the state.
Finally, Clovelly Park was the location of the former Marion High School, established 1955, which closed in 1996. The old high school grounds were converted into a housing estate, but the school hall remains as a community centre.
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