History of School

In November, 1907, a small college of eight pupils and one teacher was opened in Bickley Valley.  It took the name of the district for those times and was known as the Heidelberg School.  After a few years of operation at the bottom of the valley, the college was transferred to the Bickley Valley Seventh-day Adventist Church site in Heidelberg Road.

The College operated for approximately three decades adjacent to the church until 1935 when it was transferred to its present site in First Avenue.  For many of those early years it ran as a secondary college as well as a primary institution with studies extending to Year 10.  it is now reported to be the oldest continually operating primary school run by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Australia.

In October 2000, the school changed its name to Carmel Adventist College Primary to reflect its partnership with the secondary campus just down the road.