Yarrabilba State Secondary College | |
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![]() Yarrabilba State Secondary College, 2020 | |
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, , 4207 Australia | |
Coordinates | 27°48′28″S 153°07′01″E / 27.8078393°S 153.1170387°E |
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Type | State secondary day school |
Motto | Learning today, leading tomorrow[1] |
Established | 2020[3] |
Principal | Belinda Tregea[4] |
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Gender | Coeducational |
Enrolment | 729 (August 2022)[6]: 2 |
Houses | Lorikeets, Osprey, Kingfishers, Rosellas[2] |
Colour(s) | Navy, white, red, sky blue |
Mascot | Yarrabilba blue tongue lizard |
Website | www |
Yarrabilba State Secondary College (YSSC) is a secondary school located in Yarrabilba, a locality of Logan City (Queensland, Australia).
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.[3] Construction was completed in 2019 and the school was opened in 2020.[3]
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]
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][4]
The school was opened for grades 7 and 8 in January 2020.[3][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),[6]: 2 year 11 (2023),[5] and finally year 12 (2024).[5]
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:
Year | Years | Boys | Girls | Total | |||||
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7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | ||||
2020 | 185 | 92 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 138 | 139 | 277[10]: 2 [13] |
2021 | 206 | 195 | 109 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 265 | 245 | 510[11]: 2 [14] |
2022 | 222 | 200 | 187 | 120 | N/A | N/A | 367 | 362 | 729[6]: 2 [15] |
2023 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
The school's four sports houses are named after Australian birds:
House name | Colour | Australian bird |
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Lorikeets | Green | Lorikeet |
Kingfishers | Blue | Kingfisher |
Rosellas | Red | Rosella |
Ospreys | Orange | Osprey |