Edge Hill State School

Edge Hill State School is a primary school located approximately 8km from the centre of Cairns, Queensland offering public education to children living within the suburbs of Edge Hill, Manunda and Cairns North.As at 2008, the School's vision is:"..to educate the whole child - intellectually, socially, emotionally, and physically so that our children will make a positive contribution to society and be adaptable problem solvers, capable of coping with the demands of life now and in the future."OverviewThe school is located along Pease Street on low lying land immediately backing on to remnant Cairns Central swamp, first reserved by the State of Queensland to be a State School on 17 December 1938The school was built to service school aged children then living in a small, newly emergent rural township that had been forming along the higher edges of low lying, swampy lands progressively being transformed into market gardens, dairy paddocks and cane fieldsThe emergent township was locally known as Edge Hill, and this, then, became the name of the new 'Edge Hill' state school. It started as a single classroom, three verandahs, two earth toilets, eight school desks, 40 hat and coat hooks, 31 students, and a single "Acting Head Teacher".Seventy years on from its beginnings as land reserved for a State school, it still immediately backs on to remnant Cairns Central swamp, but is now located next to a large water drain, within the suburbs of Cairns, with student numbers capped by the Queensland Department of Education at just over 900.