The fight to save Penrose Public School's 135 year history is not an isolated battle.

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Across rural NSW, small communities are finding themselves locked in the same struggle against the Department of Education, saying their schools are the lifeblood of their towns.

Parents are asking the same question as Penrose's Elinor Egan: are small schools being unfairly fast-tracked for closure?

Mrs Egan said the department told her community in the Southern Highlands in only September that it would look to close the school this year, which currently has six students e

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