Adelaide. Adelaide High School on West Terrace. Built 1951 in cream bricks with an Art Deco and new industrial building look.
Adelaide High School was formed in 1908 in Grote Street with the amalgamation as the Pupil Teacher School (where some teachers received a little training to be a teacher in a Tudor Gothic building), the Grote Street Model School and the Advanced School for Girls. Before this time boys were expected to attend one of the private colleges for secondary education but the Advanced School for Girls was basically a high school. Some primary schools ran continuation classes before 1910 to introduce the brightest pupils to some form of secondary education.
By the end of 1908 the new school had changed its name to Adelaide High School the first government high school in South Australia and the first free high school in Australia. Country and suburban high schools were developed from around 1912 onwards with early high schools at Mount Barker, Strathalbyn, Victor Harbor, Gladstone, Gawler etc. Due to overcrowding at the Grote Street site boys were moved to the Currie Street School (there were four government primary schools within the city square mile during most of the 20th century) and only the girls occupied the Grote Street School site. In 1951 this cream brick Art Deco but slightly modernist high school as built for the Adelaide boys. The girls did not move to the West Terrace campus until 1979. Additions to the school in recent decades have been done in a sympathetic architectural style.
Adelaide. Adelaide High School on West Terrace. Built 1951 in cream bricks with an Art Deco and new industrial building look.
Adelaide High School was formed in 1908 in Grote Street with the amalgamation as the Pupil Teacher School (where some teachers received a little training to be a teacher in a Tudor Gothic building), the Grote Street Model School and the Advanced School for Girls. Before this time boys were expected to attend one of the private colleges for secondary education but the Advanced School for Girls was basically a high school. Some primary schools ran continuation classes before 1910 to introduce the brightest pupils to some form of secondary education.
By the end of 1908 the new school had changed its name to Adelaide High School the first government high school in South Australia and the first free high school in Australia. Country and suburban high schools were developed from around 1912 onwards with early high schools at Mount Barker, Strathalbyn, Victor Harbor, Gladstone, Gawler etc. Due to overcrowding at the Grote Street site boys were moved to the Currie Street School (there were four government primary schools within the city square mile during most of the 20th century) and only the girls occupied the Grote Street School site. In 1951 this cream brick Art Deco but slightly modernist high school as built for the Adelaide boys. The girls did not move to the West Terrace campus until 1979. Additions to the school in recent decades have been done in a sympathetic architectural style.