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Type | Independent, co-educational, day |
Denomination | Christian |
Established | 1996 |
Headmaster | Brian Rowe (1996–2003) Jamie Dorrington (2003–2019) Kim Cohen (2020–2023) Janelle Anderson (2023) Michael Kleidon (2024–Present) |
Houses | Bell, Greasley, Haley, Hughes |
Affiliation | Associated Private Schools |
Website | www |
Saint Stephen's College (SSC) is an independent, non-denominational Christian, co-educational, P-12 school, located in the Gold Coast suburb of Coomera, in Queensland, Australia. [1] [2] [3] It is administered by Independent Schools Queensland, with an enrolment of 1,291 students and a teaching staff of 99, as of 2023. [3] The school serves students from Prep to Year 12. [1] [2] [3]
The school was established 1 January 1996, [4] initially struggling "with money woes and accusations of financial mismanagement." [5]
In 2018, seven students were taken to hospital after a drug overdose; [5] [6] [7] they were all expelled after the last student was released from hospital. [8] Another two students suffered an overdose and subsequently taken to hospital the following year in 2019. [9]
In 2020, a Year 7 student impaled himself on a javelin. [10]
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