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Construction of the new Bundaberg State High School proceeded throughout 1920. This building is our present Technology building, D Block. In December, the school was officially transferred to its new quarters. The Technical College was intended to move as well, but this was deferred. The new building had a capacity of 180 students.
In 1921 Mr Krone, the Principal requested that a fence be erected on the railway side to keep out the goats and other small animals. Electric lights and a telephone had been installed and the school was connected to the town water supply.
During the 1920s and 1930s, parents were more interested in sending their children to high school to learn domestic science and woodworking, than preparing them for university. Such was the demand for these subjects that domestic science took over a whole building and the original building from Quay Street was moved to the high school grounds to be used as a woodworking block. In its first 10 years only 141 students remained at school long enough to complete the Junior Course, while only 10 passed the senior exam. Once Junior and Senior exams were required for various professions and the Public Service and Teachers College, the high school began to retain more students to complete Junior and Senior. School attendances began to decline from the peak in 1929 as the effects of the Great Depression spread.
In the 1930s the Education Department raised the school leaving age. It became necessary to form inter-mediate schools to cope with the two classes before High School. The Bundaberg Intermediate became a separate part of the High School complex in 1933. |
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