Education Minister Nick McKim said a number of schools were ``examining their options'' in response to an incentive scheme, but refused to name them.

Under the government's $3.5 million School Transition Fund, outlined in the 2012 budget, schools can access financial assistance for students if they volunteer to merge or close.

Maydena and Westerway primary schools were revealed yesterday as the first such schools with $230,000 from the fund to be spent on those students.

Neither school was on the government's original school closure hit-list that was abandoned last year after a community backlash.

Mr McKim has committed to no forced school closures or mergers until after the 2014 election, and said there was no voluntary target either.

``I'm not going to put a figure on that. It will depend on which school associations approach us with a view to initiating discussions,'' he said.

``There are a range of discussions occurring around the state at the moment, but I'll allow that to happen in private out of respect for those school communities.''

Seven Northern schools were named on last year's hit-list - the Fingal campus of St Mary's High School and Avoca, Bracknell, Meander, Mole Creek, Ringarooma and Westbury primary schools.

The Examiner was able to contact most of those schools yesterday, but none expressed an interest in merging or closing.

The Australian Education Union is keen to see the results of reviews into school catchment areas and bus routes.

That work began in response to recommendations from a taskforce set up to investigate school viability, which reported back in January.

AEU president Terry Polglase said that he was satisfied the process followed in the voluntary merger of Maydena and Westerway was thorough and fair.

Public school enrolments have fallen in Tasmania by more than 6200 pupils since 1995.