Last party for Hurleyville School

Hurleyville School in 2015. The school's final reunion will be held this weekend. PHOTO/SUPPLIED

A remote South Taranaki school is celebrating a significant milestone this weekend, but the event will be a bittersweet one.

Hurleyville School, north of Patea, will welcome around 200 former pupils and staff to its 125th anniversary reunion.

No current pupils will be attending as the once-bustling country school closed at the end of 2016, its roll reduced to just three.

Jacq Dwyer, part of the reunion organising committee, said people were coming from as far away as Auckland for the reunion.

The event will kick off on Friday night with registration and a dinner. On Saturday there will be a lunch, cutting of the cake, and photos of each decade. Whanganui MP Chester Borrows and South Taranaki mayor Ross Dunlop will be guests.

Ms Dwyer said one of the major events will be the unveiling of the school's World War I roll of honour.

"The school has had a World War II roll of honour but not one for World War I."

The roll will be unveiled by Mr Borrows and the daughter of one of the men on the roll.

Ms Dwyer said the reunion would be a chance to celebrate the school's history and to farewell it for the final time.

"It will be bittersweet for everyone," she said.

The bulk of the organising for the reunion was done by Bruce Fowlie and Nigel Scown.

"Usually it takes several years to pull a reunion together but these guys have done it in less than a year," Ms Dwyer said.

It's too late to register for the dinner, but Ms Dwyer said people who wanted to attend the Saturday festivities at the school were welcome to turn up on the day, although there will be a cost for the lunch.