Cowan Public School is a nurturing small school with a teaching principal. Cowan is situated 15 kilometres north of Hornsby set on the outskirts of Muogamarra Nature Reserve and Ku-Ring-Gai Chase National Park. There are 34 families with a total of 44 students enrolled for 2021.

Cowan Public School is a focal point in the local community and is well supported by its parent body. The school caters for students from Kindergarten to Year 6.

The school operates with two mainstream multi-stage classes and multi-categorical support class. The school consists of 4.5% of students who identified as having Aboriginal background and 18.18% of students who identify as having English as an additional language or dialect. Cowan Public School Family Occupation and Education Index (FOEI) is 64.