PORT FRANKLIN PRIMARY SCHOOL No. 4280 (FORMER)

The former Port Franklin State School No. 4280, at 7-11 Centre Street, Port Franklin, designed by the Public Works Department and re-erected on this site in 1930 after being relocated from Wonyip, is significant. It is a typical interwar gabled weatherboard school with a bank of multi-pane windows placed off-centre in the south elevation. Other original details include the lattice vent at the peak of the gable, simple eaves brackets and an external brick chimney. 
Non-original alterations and additions, including the skillion entry to the side of the building and other buildings on the site, are not significant.

The former Port Franklin State School No. 4280 is of local historic and social significance to the South Gippsland Shire.

Historically, this building is associated with the development of Port Franklin and the proliferation of rural one-room schools during the Interwar period, which saw many opened in relatively close proximity to existing schools. It also demonstrates the practice of moving and re-using school buildings according to need. (Criterion A) 
It is of social significance for its use as a public building for almost 90 ninety years, firstly as the school and later in association with the recreation reserve as a focus of community activities, sport and recreation in Port Franklin. (Criterion G)