Type State primary school Principal Murray Gleadhill Campus Oxley Drive Phone +61 7 5501 3888 Founded 1981 | Established 1981 Enrolment ~700 Website Official site Motto Strive To Achieve | |
 | ||
Address 164/172 Oxley Dr, Coombabah QLD 4216, Australia | ||
Cooking with healthy grub coombabah state school
Coombabah State School is a P-6 state primary school located in Coombabah, Queensland, Australia. It serves the suburbs of Hope Island, Paradise Point, Hollywell, Runaway Bay and Coombabah. The school, which was established in 1981, had 706 students as of May 2014.
Contents
History
The school was built in 1981 to service the growing population in the area north of Biggera Waters. Classes began at the start of 1981 and were held at Biggera Waters Primary School until the present facilities were constructed. A few months later, Coombabah State relocated to the current school grounds. Coombabah State School was officially opened by Ivan Gibbs on 14 November 1981.
Truancy has been identified as a problem for Gold Coast schools with typically 150 students at Coombabah State being absent each day in August 2009.
Faculty
The current principal of Coombabah State School is Murray Gleadhill. Oast principals include Dennis Howard 1981-1989, Robin Ramsbotham 1990-1995, Dianne Rankin 1996-2004 and John Hockings 2005 to 20013.
Approximately 12% of the general component of the school budget was allocated to professional development in 2005. From 2005 staff have had individual development plans to help address their in-service needs.
Features of the curriculum
Demographics
The families of the students come from a wide socio-economic range. Almost 65% of parents are in trades, labouring work and home duties. The parents in professions account for approximately 9%.
Sports
Controversy was caused in October 2008 when the school was criticised by Queensland Sports Minister Judy Spence for banning year 7 students from playing football, of all codes, during lunch-time, because it was regarded as "too rough".