Ayr State High School is the only state high school in Ayr, Queensland

Ayr, Queensland

Ayr is a town in Queensland, Australia near the delta of the Burdekin River, named after the Scottish town of Ayr by the settlers from the United Kingdom...

, Australia. The school has eleven buildings, including a fifty seat auditorium and a multi-purpose shelter with a capacity of well over seven hundred for the school's 600 students.

There are 67 full time staff. The school is run by Principal Jeff Capell, Deputy Principals Leslie Olsen and Andrea Aleksic.

Each year students compete in a wide variety of sporting competitions including a swimming and athletics competition, there are four sporting houses that compete. These are Banks (red), Maquarie (yellow), Philip (blue) and Cook (green).

Minor Redevelopments

Plans for the redevelopment of the multi-purpose shelter have been on the table since the start of the 1st semester of 2011. Redevelopment would see the shelter fully enclosed and air-conditioned and act as a gymnasium. 2011 would see the introduction of a schoolwide PA system, schoolwide WiFi and introduction of a roof covering the basketball/tennis multicourt. Although under the circumstances of Tropical Cyclone Yasi most plans may be postponed or even cancelled.

Rebranding and Re-launch

A new high school will be built in the Shire and opened in 2016, making room for the hundreds of extra students that will be attending High school instead of Primary school in Year 7. The new public school will have the name McDesme State High School (a suburb of Ayr) and Ayr State High will thus change it's name. Ayr High will be renamed as Edmund Barton State High School (After Australia's first Prime-Minister) and will change its logo accordingly.

Uniform Policy

After a P&C meeting before the end of semester two it was decided that Ayr High would relax its uniform policy allowing students to wear casual clothes or the uniform. It was decided by a slight majority in voting and Ayr High will join the small but quickly growing list of public schools in Australia to allow casual dress. The new policy will come into effect at the start of semester one in 2012.

Notable Alumni

• Karrie Webb
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   - Former World Number 1 in Women's Golf
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• Neil Gooding- Creater of the popular Back to the 80's
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   Stage Musical and director of many Pitt Street (Sydney
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  ) and West End (London
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  ) stage productions