Yarrabilba State Secondary College

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Yarrabilba State Secondary College
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Yarrabilba State Secondary College, 2020
Location
Yarrabilba State Secondary College
Yarrabilba, Logan City
,
Queensland
,
4207

Australia
Coordinates 27°48′28″S153°07′01″E / 27.8078393°S 153.1170387°E / -27.8078393; 153.1170387
Information
Type State secondary day school
MottoLearning today, leading tomorrow [1]
Established2020 [2]
PrincipalBelinda Tregea [3]
Grades
  • 7–11 (2023)
  • 7–12 (2024) [4]
Gender Coeducational
Enrolment729 (August 2022) [5] : 2 
HousesLorikeets, Osprey, Kingfishers, Rosellas [6]
Colour(s)     Navy, white, red, sky blue
MascotYarrabilba blue tongue lizard
Website www.yarrabilbassc.eq.edu.au

Yarrabilba State Secondary College (YSSC) is a secondary school located in Yarrabilba, a locality of Logan City (Queensland, Australia).

Contents

Infrastructure

Construction

In 23 March 2019, the first sod of soil was turned in the $65 Million project, led by "Broad Construction", to build a state secondary school at Yarrabilba, [7] one of the eight schools built as part of the Palaszczuk government's investment of more than $450 million. [2] Construction was completed in 2019 and the school was opened in 2020. [2]

Computers

The Logan-based Social enterprise "Substation33", which repurposes technology, donated computers and laptops to the school, some of which were used by coding tutorial groups. [8]

School leadership

Belinda Tregea, the school first and current principal of Yarrabilba State Secondary College, is an English, history and legal studies teacher who was previously the last principal at Dinmore State School, which closed pursuant to a government initiative. [9] [3]

Students

Years

The school was opened for grades 7 and 8 in January 2020. [2] [10] : 2  The school began incrementally offering the first classes of higher year each subsequent years, i.e. year 9 (2021), [11] : 2  year 10 (2022), [5] : 2  year 11 (2023), [4] and finally year 12 (2024). [4]

Student enrolments

In 2023, Yarrabilba State Secondary College was reported to have a maximum student enrolment capacity of 1,839 students. [12] The school's Programs of Excellence in Educational Excellence-Ecology and Sustainability, Sports Excellence- Fitness and Nutrition, Performing Arts, Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM), Yarrabilba State Secondary College has the following capacity to enrol: [12]

The school had 260 students on its first day. [9] Since then the trend in school enrolments (August figures) has been:

Student enrolment trends
YearYearsBoysGirlsTotal
789101112
202018592N/AN/AN/AN/A138139277 [10] : 2  [13]
2021206195109N/AN/AN/A265245510 [11] : 2  [14]
2022222200187120N/AN/A367362729 [5] : 2  [15]
2023TBATBATBATBATBATBATBATBATBA

House structure

The school's four sports houses are named after Australian birds:

Current house system
House nameColourAustralian bird
Lorikeets  Green Lorikeet
Kingfishers  Blue Kingfisher
Rosellas  Red Rosella
Ospreys  Orange Osprey

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