The Stoney Creek Public School was erected in 1871, and in 1889 the increase in attendance necessitated the addition of a second class-room. Mr. Georgensen was the contractor, and Miss Stevens the first teacher in charge. It is a well ventilated wooden building, having forty-eight children on the roll, with an average attendance of forty-two. The playground is divided into two sections for boys and girls, shelter sheds being erected for the use of each.

Mr. Edwin Lovell Ironmonger, Headmaster of the Stoney Creek Public School, was born in 1863 at Lincolnshire, and was educated at East Kirby School, where he subsequently served a term of five years as a pupil teacher. He was then promoted to second assistant at the Grantham (Spittlegate) Boys' School, where he remained for nine years. Mr. Ironmonger passed many examinations, including drawing and science. Coming to New Zealand in 1891, per ship “Ionic,” he was at Christchurch for eighteen months, when he came to Wellington and received his present appointment four months afterwards.