Whitford Catholic Primary School was officially opened on 7th April 1978 with Sr Mary O’Connor (Principal), Brenda Pond (nee Rooney) and Allan Thompson as the foundation teachers of the school. The school officially opened with four classrooms, a library, one withdrawal, one wet area, tuckshop and toilet facilities and nine hectares of sand. Enrolments at that stage numbered some 80 pupils in Grades One to Four out of which 35 pupils were of Grade One.