By the late 1920s there were not enough children enrolled to continue the school,
so it was closed in 1935.
For 25 years 4 majestic bottle trees stood in a deserted school yard,
waiting for the children to return.
Many thought that this was to be the fate of Banana State School however in the 1950s,
large property holdings were divided into smaller blocks available to new settlers.
With the change came children.
After much discussion, the Education Department agreed to once again open the school at Banana.
It re-opened in 1960 and although numbers have fluctuated since then,
it has not been in danger since.

This info from the net at; http://bananass.eq.edu.au/wcmss/index.php/History.html