Qld’s biggest high school hires extra staff as enrolments exceed 4000

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The school, which has an official enrolment capacity of 3444 students, has grown by 8 per cent in two years.

Queensland’s biggest high school has surged beyond 4000 enrolled students, amid an increase in children turning up after the start of the school year.

Marsden State High School, at Waterford West in Logan, has 4043 children enrolled this year, including 703 Year 7 students.Credit:According to its enrolment management plan, the school has a maximum enrolment capacity of 3444 students. However, an Education Department spokeswoman said enrolments were under the school’s built capacity – a different way of calculating capacity using the maximum target capacity of all general and specialist classrooms.The department confirmed it was working with the school following an “increased number of late in-catchment enrolments since the beginning of the 2024 school year”.

 

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