Adelaide High School
| Adelaide High School | |
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Adelaide, South Australia Australia |
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| Type | Public |
| Motto |
Non scholae sed vitae (Not only for school, but for life) |
| Established | 1908 |
| Principal | Anita Zocchi |
| Enrolment | 1216 |
| Campus | Urban |
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| Website | http://www.adelaidehs.sa.edu.au/ |
Coordinates: 34°55′33″S 138°35′12″E / 34.92577°S 138.58661°E
Adelaide High School is a coeducational state high school situated on the corner of West Terrace and Glover Avenue in the Adelaide Parklands. It was the first government highschool in South Australia. It currently has an enrollment of approximately 1,200 students.
In 1879, John Anderson Hartley, Catherine Helen Spence and others created the Advanced School for Girls in Grote Street, Adelaide. It was the first public secondary school in South Australia. The school was combined with the Adelaide Continuation School, and on April 8, 1908 the name was changed to Adelaide High School. This was the same year the South Australian state high school system was launched. Adelaide High School was officially opened on the 24th of September, 1908 by the premier of South Australia, Thomas Price. It was the first secondary school in the Commonwealth of Australia.
In 1927, it had an enrolment of 1,067 students, making it the largest school of its kind in the Commonwealth. By 1929, due to increasing enrollments, the school occupied two sites; one site was at Grote Street and the other was at Currie Street (now part of the Remand Centre). Due to the increasing enrolments, it was decided that a new building was required for Adelaide High School. The current site of the school on West Terrace was originally set aside for an army barracks in 1849, but in 1859 an observatory was built instead, which then became the Bureau of Meteorology in 1939.
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