East Brisbane State School
| East Brisbane State School | |
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Entrance court and building, 2015
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| Location | 90 Wellington Road, East Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°29′10″S 153°02′22″E / 27.486°S 153.0395°ECoordinates: 27°29′10″S 153°02′22″E / 27.486°S 153.0395°E |
| Design period | 1870s - 1890s (late 19th century) |
| Built | 1899 - 1939 |
| Architect | Department of Public Works |
| Architectural style(s) | Arts & Crafts |
| Official name: East Brisbane State School, Brisbane East State School | |
| Type | state heritage (built) |
| Designated | 6 November 1994 |
| Reference no. | 601476 |
| Significant period | 1890s-1930s (fabric) 1890s-1930s (historical) 1899 ongoing (social) |
| Significant components | school/school room, tower - bell / belfry |
 Location of East Brisbane State School in Queensland
Location of East Brisbane State School in Queensland
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East Brisbane State School is a heritage-listed state school at 90 Wellington Road, East Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The school has two other street frontages: Vulture Street and Stanley Street. It was designed by Department of Public Works and built from 1899 to 1939. It is also known as Brisbane East State School. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 6 November 1994.
East Brisbane State School, (officially Brisbane East State School until September 1994), was one of the first large brick state schools in Brisbane. The original portion of the school was erected in 1899, with extensions added in 1900, 1938 and 1939. The single-storeyed timber Infants' School was erected in 1910-11.
These buildings did not replace an earlier school on the site, but were erected to cater for a rapidly escalating East Brisbane/Woolloongabba population. East Brisbane's first suburban boom was in the mid-1880s, when the larger estates, such as Mowbraytown (1884), were subdivided, but at that time no provision was made for a state school, and East Brisbane children attended state schools at South Brisbane, Kangaroo Point and Dutton Park. The Brisbane's electric tramway reached Woolloongabba/East Brisbane in 1897, and in 1901 an extension through East Brisbane to Norman Park was constructed. The provision of this cheap, efficient form of public transport encouraged working-class families to the East Brisbane area on an unprecedented scale.
The Department of Public Instruction, when recognising in 1897 the need for the establishment of a primary school in East Brisbane, underestimated the rate of population growth in the area and potential school enrolment. When the first school contract was let in 1899, it was for a brick building to cost £1,800 and to accommodate 350 pupils; the school opened on 10 July 1899 with approximately 800 students, and by the end of the year, 1008 children were enrolled. By mid-1901, the school had been extended with the addition of two classrooms and a central entrance with bell turret, at a cost of £2,323. The school could then accommodate officially 730 pupils in four large and three small classrooms.
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