In 1999, Broome Primary School celebrated 100 years of providing education to the Broome Community. The school, including an original classroom dating back to 1901, is of traditional "Broome - style" design. Set in amongst lush tropical gardens, the school reflects the lifestyle and architecture for which Broome has become renowned.

Currently the School consists of 14 classrooms, art room, computer room, music room, library resources centre, two on-site pre-primary centres, an undercover area and the canteen. The school has an enrolment of approximately 400 students from Kindergarten to Year 7. Students who attend Broome Primary generally live in the older part of Broome or the agricultural/semi-rural communities and developments within approximately 30 kilometres of the town.

Broome Primary School students and their backgrounds reflect the traditional, historical and multicultural aspects and industries of the Broome community as well as the growth associated with activities such as agriculture, tourism, the provision of services and small business. Fifty percent of Broome Primary School student's identify themselves as indigenous.

Broome is located in the Kimberley region of Western Australia and is on a small peninsula surrounded by water, on the western and southern sides by the Indian Ocean and on the east side by Roebuck Bay. Inland of Broome the Great Sandy Desert stretches for many hundreds of kilometres until it meets the shores of Roebuck Bay. Broome is renowned for its pearls and the beautiful white sands of Cable Beach and is Western Australia's top tourist town.

Broome is rich in Aboriginal culture and is the traditional home of the Yawuru and Djugun people.