Ayr State High School
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Heritage-listed building at Ayr State High School
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Edwards St Ayr, Queensland, 4807 Australia |
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| Type | State, Co-ed, Secondary |
| Motto | Meliora Sequimur |
| Established | 1937 |
| Principal | Craig Whittred |
| Staff | 71 |
| Grades | 8-12 |
| Enrolment | 485 (2007) |
| Houses | Banks, Maquarie, Phillip and Cook |
| Website | www |
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 Location of Ayr State High School in Queensland
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| Location | 82-90 Wickham Street, Ayr, Shire of Burdekin, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 19°34′38″S 147°24′32″E / 19.5771°S 147.409°ECoordinates: 19°34′38″S 147°24′32″E / 19.5771°S 147.409°E |
| Design period | 1919 - 1930s (interwar period) |
| Built | 1935 - 1937 |
| Architect | Department of Public Works (Queensland) |
| Architectural style(s) | Classicism |
| Official name: Ayr State High School, Ayr State High and Intermediate School | |
| Type | state heritage (built) |
| Designated | 13 January 1995 |
| Reference no. | 601574 |
| Significant period | 1930s (historical) 1930s (fabric) 1935 ongoing (social) |
| Significant components | flagpole/flagstaff, roof/ridge ventilator/s / fleche/s, school/school room |
Ayr State High School is a heritage-listed state secondary school at 82-90 Wickham Street, Ayr, Shire of Burdekin, Queensland, Australia. It is one of two high schools in Ayr, the other being Burdekin Catholic High School. Ayr State High School was designed by Department of Public Works (Queensland) and built from 1935 to 1937. It was also known as Ayr State High and Intermediate School. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 13 January 1995.
The school has eleven buildings, including a fifty-seat auditorium and a multi-purpose shelter with a capacity of well over seven hundred for the school's 500 students.
In 2012 all students were given the chance to be issued with a take home laptop.
The school is run by Principal Craig Whitred and Deputy Principals Lesley Olsen and Andrea Aleksic. There are 67 full-time staff. The region the school operates in is run by Richard English.
Each year students compete in a wide variety of sporting competitions including a swimming and athletics competition. Because of the influx of students from year 7 the school has chosen to introduce a new sporting house. Sports houses include Banks (red), Macquarie (yellow), Philip (blue) and Cook (green), named after famous explorers in the region.
The earliest building at Ayr State High School was erected in 1934-36 as the Ayr State High and Intermediate School, with an enrolment drawn from the wider Burdekin region. It was constructed during a period of unprecedented economic growth in Ayr, and ranks with the 1935 Court House, 1935 Masonic Hall and 1939 Tropix Theatre, as one of the more important interwar buildings in the town.
The Burdekin was first settled in the 1860s, and the town of Ayr was surveyed in 1882. The town grew in support of the increasing number of sugar plantations and small sugar growers establishing themselves in the Burdekin River region, and by the 1920s was the principal town in the district.
A primary school was established at Ayr in 1886, but until the late 1920s Burdekin children had no local access to secondary education. In 1913 the Ayr State School committee requested the provision of high school courses at the primary school, and in 1920 promoted the idea of a separate high school for Ayr. A secondary department, offering academic, commercial, domestic science and manual training subjects, was finally attached to Ayr State School in 1928.
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