<p>Queensland Government Media Release</p>
<h2>Queensland will commit $250 million over two years in the State Budget to build the additional classrooms needed for a significant new era for education in Queensland from 2020.</h2>
<p>Deputy premier and treasurer Jackie Trad said the ‘2020 Ready’ funding boost would support students in more than 60 Queensland high schools across the State.</p>
<p>“Our kids are our future and, as a government, one of the most important things we can do is give Queensland students a world-class education,” Ms Trad said.</p>
<p>“This investment will deliver more classrooms and learning centres to provide the best possible environment for learning.</p>
<p>“Queensland is a fast-growing State and this investment is about planning for the future.”</p>
<p>Education minister Grace Grace said in 2020, for the very first time in Queensland’s history, high schools would have a full complement of students across Years 7 to 12.</p>
<p>“This infrastructure program is about making sure we are ‘2020 Ready’,” Ms Grace said.</p>
<p>“This $250 million investment will ensure our schools can accommodate the additional 17,000 students expected in our high schools from 2020 and into the future.</p>
<p>“It brings the total funding commitment towards increasing the capacity of state secondary schools to more than $470 million between 2017-18 and 2019-20.”</p>
<p>Ms Grace said the ‘2020 Ready’ program signals the next phase of Queensland’s major education reforms, which started more than a decade ago.</p>
<p>“In 2007, the state Labor government gave Queensland children a Flying Start with the introduction of Prep, which we supported with additional, specialist classrooms for Preppies,” she said.</p>
<p>“Queensland’s first intake of preppies were those whose birthdays were in the first half of the calendar year – so theirs has always been a much smaller cohort of students, known as the ‘half cohort’.</p>
<p>“Our next educational reform came in 2015, when we moved Year 7 into high school and established six years of secondary education, which was also supported with significant infrastructure investment.</p>
<p>“However, our smaller ‘half cohort’ has been in high school since 2015 too – meaning we have never had the full complement of students across all six year levels in our secondary schools.</p>
<p>“With the original prep students set to graduate from high school at the end of 2019, we will have – for the very first time – six full year levels of students in Queensland secondary schools from 2020.</p>
<p>“This new $250 million investment for additional classrooms will prepare those schools identified as requiring additional capacity for the additional students expected in 2020.”</p>
<p><strong>High schools receiving ‘2020 Ready’ projects in 2018-19 and 2019-20:</strong></p>
<p>• Albany Creek SHS</p>
<p>• Alexandra Hills SHS</p>
<p>• Beenleigh SHS</p>
<p>• Bremer SHS</p>
<p>• Bribie Island SHS</p>
<p>• Brisbane SHS</p>
<p>• Caboolture SHS</p>
<p>• Cairns SHS</p>
<p>• Cavendish Road SHS</p>
<p>• Centenary Heights SHS</p>
<p>• Centenary SHS</p>
<p>• Chancellor State College</p>
<p>• Cleveland District SHS</p>
<p>• Coolum SHS</p>
<p>• Ferny Grove SHS</p>
<p>• Flagstone State Community College</p>
<p>• Forest Lake SHS</p>
<p>• Glenala SHS</p>
<p>• Harristown SHS</p>
<p>• Helensvale SHS</p>
<p>• Highfields State Secondary College</p>
<p>• Indooroopilly SHS</p>
<p>• Ipswich State High School</p>
<p>• James Nash SHS</p>
<p>• Kawana Waters State College</p>
<p>• Kedron SHS</p>
<p>• Kelvin Grove State College</p>
<p>• Laidley SHS</p>
<p>• Lowood SHS</p>
<p>• Mackay Northern Beaches SHS</p>
<p>• Mansfield SHS</p>
<p>• Maroochydore SHS</p>
<p>• Marsden SHS</p>
<p>• Meridan State College</p>
<p>• Mount Gravatt SHS</p>
<p>• Mountain Creek SHS</p>
<p>• North Lakes State College</p>
<p>• Ormeau Woods SHS</p>
<p>• Pacific Pines SHS</p>
<p>• Palm Beach-Currumbin SHS</p>
<p>• Park Ridge SHS</p>
<p>• Pimlico SHS</p>
<p>• Pimpama State Secondary College</p>
<p>• Proserpine SHS</p>
<p>• Rochedale SHS</p>
<p>• Southport SHS</p>
<p>• Springfield Central SHS</p>
<p>• Stretton State College</p>
<p>• Sunshine Beach SHS</p>
<p>• Tamborine Mountain SHS</p>
<p>• The Gap SHS</p>
<p>• Toolooa SHS</p>
<p>• Trinity Bay SHS</p>
<p>• Varsity College</p>
<p>• Windaroo Valley SHS</p>
<p>• Wynnum SHS</p>
<p>• Yeppoon SHS </p>
<p>Schools which have already received new infrastructure under this program (completed in 2016-17 and 2017-18) are Coolum State High School, Dalby State High School,</p>
<p>Flagstone State High School, Gladstone State High School, Harristown State High School, Highfields State Secondary College, Mansfield State High School, Mountain Creek State High School,</p>
<p>Murrumba State Secondary College and Southport State High School.</p>
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