The school originally opened on 11 January 2017 with 58 learners from Grade R to Grade 3  who started their new school year as English-medium Dome Primary School learners. At first, they were accommodated at the A.M. Lembede School in Tumahole.
A few months later three temporary classrooms awaited them at their school premises in Loop- and Delver streets.

This year the school, for the first time also has a Grade 8 class.

As of 2023, Dome Primary will be  a combined school for learners from Grade R to Grade 12.

Currently the school has a total of 361 learners.

The original  three temporary classrooms quadrupled to 12. Along with the school principal, Wilna van Buren-Scheele, the teachers, supporting personnel, and general workers they did a splendid job in bringing colour to where there once was nothing. At last, these children and teachers can look forward to a proper school building funded by the Department of Education.

Earthworks on the construction site of the new school building in Fourth Avenue is almost completed.

Once the building project is completed and the school officially opened, it will be renamed Father Balink Primary School.

The land where the Dome Primary School is currently situated was zoned for educational purposes way back in the seventies. The mobile classrooms were only a temporary measure, and a permanent structure was a need for a long time. But in 2020, engineers visited the school premises and confirmed that the clay soil and wetland would make preparing the land and building too expensive. As safety and cost have to be considered when building a school, the decision was made to rather build on the premises on Fourth Avenue. For these children, it will be a joyful day when temporary classrooms and barren ground make way for a proper school building and a grassy playground.