Yarrabilba State Secondary College (YSSC) is a secondary school located in Yarrabilba (Queensland, Australia), a locality of Logan City.
Etymology
The indigenous Australian Wanggeriburra clan of the Yugambeh language group occupied the land of Yarrabilba before the arrival of Europeans. The suburb's name, and hence the school's name, are based on the word "Yarrabilba" meaning 'place of song' in Wangerriburra/Bundjalung language.
Infrastructure
Construction On 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, one of the eight schools built as part of the Palaszczuk government's investment of more than $450 million. Construction was completed in 2019 and the school was opened in 2020.
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.
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.
Students Years
The school was opened for grades 7 and 8 in January 2020. The school began incrementally offering the first classes of higher year each subsequent years, i.e. year 9 (2021), year 10 (2022), year 11 (2023), and finally year 12 (2024).
Student enrolments
In 2023, Yarrabilba State Secondary College was reported to have a maximum student enrolment capacity of 1,839 students. 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: 75 in the Program of Educational Excellence – Ecology and Sustainability 150 in the Program of Sports Excellence – Fitness and Nutrition (High Performance Sport) 150 in the Program of Educational Excellence – Performing Arts (Music, Dance, Drama, Public Speaking) 75 in the Program of Educational Excellence – STEAM
The school had 260 students on its first day. Since then the trend in school enrolments (August figures) has been:
+ Student enrolment trendsYearYearsBoysGirlsTotalRef 7 8 9 10 11 12 2020 185 92 - - - - 138 139 277 2021 206 195 109 - - - 265 245 510 2022 222 200 187 120 - - 367 362 729 2023 168 216 175 173 98 - 415 415 830 2024 187 198 246 176 146 77 532 498 1,030 2025 TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA 557 533 1,090 2026 TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA
House structure
The school's four sports houses are named after Australian birds:
+Current house systemHouse nameColourAustralian bird Lorikeets Green Lorikeet Kingfishers Blue Kingfisher Rosellas Red Rosella Ospreys Orange Osprey
See also
Education in Queensland History of state education in Queensland List of schools in Greater Brisbane List of schools in Queensland Lists of schools in Australia
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