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Brisbane State High School
Brisbane State High School (BSHS), commonly State High, is a partially selective, co-educational state secondary school, located in South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is a member of the Great Public Schools Association of Queensland (GPS), and the Queensland Girls' Secondary Schools Sports Association (QGSSSA). It was the first state secondary school established in Brisbane, as well as the first academic state high school in Queensland.
Brisbane State High School hosts approximately 3600 students from Year 7 to Year 12, with a larger proportion of enrolments allocated to the local catchment area than to its selective-entry program. Of the places available in the selective-entry program, approximately 50% are allocated to academic entry, 40% to sporting entry, and 10% to cultural entry (Music and Art).
The school is noted for its academic and sporting success in Queensland, and for being the only government school in the GPS and QGSSSA. In 2023, Brisbane State High School achieved the most 99.95 ATAR scores in the country, the highest university entrance score.
T. Max Hawkins, historian and author of The Queensland Great Public Schools – A History, wrote of the origins of Brisbane State High School:
The school developed from the School of Arts in Ann Street, and later from the old Normal School which was built by convict labour on the site where the State Government Insurance building now stands...The year 1913 is generally taken as the start of the Brisbane State High School, a co-educational school which, by 1964, had expanded to accommodate 1310 students, 891 of them boys.
Further information on the origins of the school is discussed in Philip Walker Davidson's thesis:
Headmasters of various metropolitan state schools were asked to nominate 76 boys and girls for admission to the new school, and a further 70 paying students made up the first year's enrolment. Classrooms were provided in the Technical College buildings, Ann Street, until 1914 when the school moved to lower George Street.
...in 1921 the school was to occupy the well known Normal School buildings on the corner of Adelaide and Edward Streets...At about this stage it was separated from the control of the Central Technical College and combined with the Junior High School which had been operating as a secondary department at the Normal School. The name Brisbane State High School was then first applied.
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Brisbane State High School
Brisbane State High School (BSHS), commonly State High, is a partially selective, co-educational state secondary school, located in South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is a member of the Great Public Schools Association of Queensland (GPS), and the Queensland Girls' Secondary Schools Sports Association (QGSSSA). It was the first state secondary school established in Brisbane, as well as the first academic state high school in Queensland.
Brisbane State High School hosts approximately 3600 students from Year 7 to Year 12, with a larger proportion of enrolments allocated to the local catchment area than to its selective-entry program. Of the places available in the selective-entry program, approximately 50% are allocated to academic entry, 40% to sporting entry, and 10% to cultural entry (Music and Art).
The school is noted for its academic and sporting success in Queensland, and for being the only government school in the GPS and QGSSSA. In 2023, Brisbane State High School achieved the most 99.95 ATAR scores in the country, the highest university entrance score.
T. Max Hawkins, historian and author of The Queensland Great Public Schools – A History, wrote of the origins of Brisbane State High School:
The school developed from the School of Arts in Ann Street, and later from the old Normal School which was built by convict labour on the site where the State Government Insurance building now stands...The year 1913 is generally taken as the start of the Brisbane State High School, a co-educational school which, by 1964, had expanded to accommodate 1310 students, 891 of them boys.
Further information on the origins of the school is discussed in Philip Walker Davidson's thesis:
Headmasters of various metropolitan state schools were asked to nominate 76 boys and girls for admission to the new school, and a further 70 paying students made up the first year's enrolment. Classrooms were provided in the Technical College buildings, Ann Street, until 1914 when the school moved to lower George Street.
...in 1921 the school was to occupy the well known Normal School buildings on the corner of Adelaide and Edward Streets...At about this stage it was separated from the control of the Central Technical College and combined with the Junior High School which had been operating as a secondary department at the Normal School. The name Brisbane State High School was then first applied.