Brisbane Normal School
| Brisbane State High School | |
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| Location | |
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South Brisbane, Queensland Australia |
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| Coordinates | 27°28′49″S 153°1′5″E / 27.48028°S 153.01806°ECoordinates: 27°28′49″S 153°1′5″E / 27.48028°S 153.01806°E |
| Information | |
| Type | Public, Selective, Co-educational, Secondary, Day school |
| Motto |
Latin: Scientia est Potestas (Knowledge is Power) |
| Established |
1913, 1921 (official) 1913-1925 (known as 'The Normal School) 1925- present (known as 'Brisbane State High School') |
| Principal | Wade Haynes |
| Enrolment | 3,190 (7–12) (2017) |
| Campus | Urban (South Brisbane) |
| Colour(s) | Cerise and Navy Blue |
| Website | www.brisbaneshs.eq.edu.au |
1913, 1921 (official)
1913-1925 (known as 'The Normal School)
Brisbane State High School (BSHS or often commonly State High or 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, and the Queensland Girls' Secondary Schools Sports Association. It was the first state secondary school established in Brisbane, as well as the first academic state high school to be founded in Queensland. The school employs a variety of selection criteria for prospective students, maintaining a quota for local area enrolments, however also using academic, sporting, cultural and artistic talents as means of determining the annual intake. In 2017, there were 3,190 students in Years 7–12.
One of the school's buildings, H Block, was the former Brisbane South Girls and Infants School built in 1864 and is now listed on the Queensland Heritage Register.
T. Max Hawkins, historian and author of "The Queensland Great Public Schools – A History", wrote of the origins of Brisbane State High School, that:
"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 light on the origins of the schools is shed in Philip Walker Davidson's work, "Great Public Schools : an investigation into G.P.S. secondary schooling in Queensland, its relationship with and the problem it poses architecture, and an appraisal of the factors governing the future establishment of such a school", where he wrote:
"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.
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