Edge Hill State School
| Edge Hill State School | |
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| Location | |
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Cairns, Queensland Australia 
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| Coordinates | 16°54′23″S 145°44′34″E / 16.90639°S 145.74278°ECoordinates: 16°54′23″S 145°44′34″E / 16.90639°S 145.74278°E |
| Information | |
| Type | Public State Primary |
| Motto | Honour and Labour |
| Established | February 1940 |
| Principal | Paul Campbell |
| Enrolment | ~900 |
| Campus | Edge Hill |
| Colour(s) |
Maroon & Gold |
| Website | [1] |
Maroon & Gold
Edge Hill State School (EHSS) is a primary school located approximately 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) from the centre of Cairns, Queensland offering public education to children living within the suburbs of Edge Hill, Manunda and Cairns North.
As at 2008, the School's vision is:
"..to educate the whole child - intellectually, socially, emotionally, and physically so that our children will make a positive contribution to society and be adaptable problem solvers, capable of coping with the demands of life now and in the future."
The school is located along Pease Street on low lying land immediately backing on to remnant Cairns Central swamp, first reserved by the State of Queensland to be a State School on 17 December 1938
The school was built to service school aged children then living in a small, newly emergent rural township that had been forming along the higher edges of low lying, swampy lands progressively being transformed into market gardens, dairy paddocks and cane fields
The emergent township was locally known as Edge Hill, and this, then, became the name of the new 'Edge Hill' state school. It started as a single classroom, three verandahs, two earth toilets, eight school desks, 40 hat and coat hooks, 31 students, and a single "Acting Head Teacher".
Seventy years on from its beginnings as land reserved for a State school, it still immediately backs on to remnant Cairns Central swamp, but is now located next to a large water drain, within the suburbs of Cairns, with student numbers capped by the Queensland Department of Education at just over 900.
It has:
The slightly raised area within the Cairns central swamps reserved for a school, upon which the Edge Hill State School was built, had originally been used by local Edge Hill residents as a golf course (since abandoned because of constant flooding and inundation),.
The area was identified as a prospective site for a school by District Inspector of Schools, Mr C Walton who in 1938 reported to a Department of Public Instruction Advisory Committee identifying three possible sites for a school, making the following comments about the site and its environs:
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