Ayr State High School

Ayr State High School
Address
Edwards St Ayr, Queensland, 4807 Australia
Coordinates	19°34′37.58″S 147°24′32.24″E / 19.5771056°S 147.4089556°ECoordinates: 19°34′37.58″S 147°24′32.24″E / 19.5771056°S 147.4089556°E
Information
Type	State, Co-ed, Secondary
Motto	Meliora Sequimur
Established	1937[1]
Principal	Craig Whittred
Deputy principal	Lesley Olsen and Andrea Aleksic
Staff	71
Grades	8-12
Enrolment	485[1] (2007)
Houses	Banks, Maquarie, Phillip and Cook
Website	www.ayrshs.eq.edu.au

Ayr State High School is a heritage-listed high school in Ayr, Queensland, Australia. It is one of two high schools in Ayr, the other being Burdekin Catholic High School.

Facilities

The school has eleven buildings, including a fifty-seat auditorium and a multi-purpose shelter with a capacity of well over seven hundred for the school's 500 students.

In 2012 all students were given the chance to be issued with a take home laptop.

Staff

The school is run by Principal Craig Whitred and Deputy Principals Lesley Olsen and Andrea Aleksic. There are 67 full-time staff. The region the school operates in is run by Richard English.

Sport

Each year students compete in a wide variety of sporting competitions including a swimming and athletics competition. Because of the influx of students from year 7 the school has chosen to introduce a new sporting house. Sports houses include Banks (red), Macquarie (yellow), Philip (blue) and Cook (green), named after famous explorers in the region.

Heritage listing

The school was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register in 1995.^[2]

Notable Alumni

• Karrie Webb - Former World Number 1 in Women's Golf
• Neil Gooding- Creater of the popular Back to the 80's Stage Musical and director of many Pitt Street (Sydney) and West End (London) stage productions

References

1. Ayr SHS - About Us, retrieved 2 February 2012
2. "Ayr State High School (entry 601574)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 7 July 2013.