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Yeronga State High School
Yeronga State High School (or YSHS) is a co-educational, state secondary school, located in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The school vision is predicated on high standards, solid foundations, innovative practices, strong traditions and the agree values of: Yeronga State High School provides opportunities for all students, irrespective of background and ability to access a broad range of knowledge skills and competencies. Yeronga SHS provides learning pathways to a socially, economically and environmentally balanced future. These are accompanied by the promotion of values and attitudes that enable the student to become more resilient and ready for the dynamic world of post secondary options and directions both within Australia and overseas. The students will have the power and enabling skills to change the world to be a better place, through tolerance of diversity, being able to work with other people to promote the breaking down of barriers and by working harmoniously together as citizens of the world. Yeronga State High School is strongly famous for its students of various backgrounds; counting up to 65 different nationalities. Other than that, Yeronga SHS has in recent years been successful in both academic and athletic perspectives, winning the Regional Showcase Awards two years in a row (over 75 nominated state schools); including having the Open Boys Soccer reaching the Brisbane Metropolitan Finals two years in a row (2011, 2012), having plenty of students representing Queensland.
 * Quality
 * Harmony
 * Sustainability

Currently, there are slightly above 600 students enrolled at Yeronga State High School.

History
In 1959, the Queensland Government decided to build a high school on 60 acres of land bounded by Park Road, Villa Street, Oakwood Street and the railway line. Most of the land consisted of a large gully that drained water from Annerley, under the railway line, through Fehlberg Park and into the Brisbane River. A worse site for a school would be hard to imagine - sandstone outcrops, heavy clay and sloping ground – but at the time this was possibly the only open area in the district. It meant that every building was on a different level. The school was originally to be known as Annerley State High School, however, while the first building was being built, the State Member for Yeronga and Minister for Health, the Hon. Dr. H. Winston Noble, told Cabinet that he had received representations from many of his constituents to have the name of the school changed. Cabinet agreed and the school became Yeronga State High School. The school opened 25 January 1960 with a Principal, 12 staff and a first year enrollment of 217 students. The original buildings were A block and Manual Training and as student numbers grew, Home Economics, E and F blocks were built in 1961, G block in 1963, I block in 1968, the Library and J block in 1969, the Auditorium in 1970, and lastly the Cultural Centre in 1979. Student numbers increased to 1,821 in 1971 with 93 teachers. At this stage Acacia Ridge and Holland Park High Schools were opened and Yeronga’s numbers started to decrease until the present time when approximately 600 students are enrolled. In 1967, 25 acres were taken from the school grounds for the construction of the Yeronga TAFE with which we have a strong affiliation. Over the years as the numbers have grown less and TAFE numbers increased, I and J blocks and 3 ground floor rooms of E block have been transferred to Yeronga TAFE. In addition, three quarters of the bottom oval, built in 1966, was given to TAFE for car parking and an indoor sporting complex to which the school has access. In return the top oval has been extended to accommodate a 400 metre running track. A more recent addition for the convenience of students and staff was the provision of covered walkways. The Special Education Unit was opened in 1978 to cater for hearing and visually impaired students, but over the years the purpose of the Unit has changed. It is now a unit specialising in supporting students from a non-English speaking background as the school has students from many different cultures.