Six Brisbane schools have overcrowded classrooms, with one reporting average class sizes of 30 students.
But parents, including East Brisbane State School dad Daniel Angus, say class size can be a “blunt instrument” and the extra support schools provide individual students is just as important.were Salisbury State School , Mackenzie State Primary School and Wavell Heights State School . All six schools were on the smaller side. Wavell Heights was the largest, with 418 students in August last year, and Seville Road the smallest with 121.now-scrapped $2.7 billion Olympic rebuild of the GabbaAnd students at the 125-year-old school are among the most enthusiastic about their education, with 100 per cent who responded to its 2023 survey reporting “I like my school” and “my teachers motivate me to learn”.