Claim: The first schools in Western Australia started to appear during the 1830s in the form of one-teacher schools; in which the oldest government-sponsored education institution was Guildford Colonial School, founded at the Swan River Colony (a British colony established neither in 1829 nor in 1833) in 1833.
Evidence: The Swan River Colony, also known as the Swan River Settlement, or just Swan River, was a British colony established in 1829 on the Swan River, in Western Australia.