Cavendish Road State High School

Location: Holland Park, Brisbane, Qld.

Cavendish Road State High School is a school of 1700 students from a diverse range of cultural backgrounds.

How Cavendish Road State High School has used Gonski funding:

The school received over $400 000 in funding. The funding was used to support Year 11 and 12 students to succeed in their chosen pathway. This involved strengthening the case management approach for students who were on a QCE or QCIA pathway and providing focussed and intensive teaching targeted at ‘C’ students in order to improve the quality of their demonstrations of learning against the relevant year-level achievement standard. A specialised computer program was purchased and a Senior Schooling Teacher Aide was employed to input data and track student progress for the Senior Schooling Intervention Team. An external training provider was also engaged to support up to 36 students not on track to achieve a QCE.

  • The funds were also used to continue an interdisciplinary case management approach involving parents, the school and community to support Indigenous students. A range of strategies were implemented to strengthen the engagement of indigenous students and their families.
  • Funds were also directed to the school’s priority of improving the attendance rates of students through improved analysis and monitoring processes.
  • Gonski funds enabled the school to implement a whole school approach to the teaching of Literacy and Numeracy.

How Gonski funding has made a difference for students

The funds have enabled the school to track the progress of all students across Years 7 to 12 and to support ‘at risk’ students resulting in improved retention and academic performance.

The increase in the school’s attendance rate by 2% has significantly contributed to improved student outcomes.

Approximately 50% of Year 7 students achieved in the Upper Two Bands in all areas of NAPLAN in 2016.

What Cavendish Road State High School could do with Gonski funding in the future

The full Gonski funding would enable the school to continue with the implementation of the school’s pedagogical framework and embed it as the shared language of teaching and learning. Funds would also be expended on enhancing teacher professional development.

<<< BACK


More Gonski Success Stories

Barrack Heights Public School
Barrack Heights PS is located in Shelharbour, 16km south of Wollongong. It has an enrolment of 250 students, most of them from low-income backgrounds.
Forest Lake State High School
Forest Lake State High School in outer suburban Brisbane has an enrolment of around 1450 students from diverse backgrounds.
Ulladulla High School
Ulladulla High School, located on the NSW south coast, has an enrolment of about 1200 students, 70% of whom are from low-income backgrounds.
Yarrabah State School
Yarrabah State School is a three campus Pre-Prep to Year 10 school in the Far North Queensland community of Yarrabah. The community faces complex inter-generational challenges including high unemployment and families living in poverty.
Morayfield State High School
Morayfield State High School has a current enrolment of approximately 1500 students. The majority of students are from low-income backgrounds
Mansfield State High School
Mansfield State High School is a large high school of about 2,200 students from diverse income and ethnic background in southern Brisbane.
Darlington Primary School
Darlington Primary School, in Adelaide’s southern suburbs, has an enrolment of about 300 students from diverse cultural and socio-economic backgrounds.
Roma Mitchell Secondary College
The school opened in 2011 and has three campuses co-located on one site: Girls’ Education, Co-Education and Special Education.
Milton Public School
Milton Public School, a K-6 school on the south coast of NSW, has an enrolment of 650 students about half of whom are from low-income backgrounds. Around 40 students are from non-English-speaking backgrounds, and about 5% of the students are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander.
Minimbah State School
Minimbah State School has a stable enrolment of around 800 students. A high number of students are from low-income backgrounds.
Casino Public School
Casino Public school is a P-6 school of 700 students, located in rural north coast NSW.
Windaroo State School
Windaroo State School in the Mount Warren Park area of Logan City has an enrolment of around 930 students. A significant number of students are from low-income backgrounds. Approximately 50 students are Indigenous and 80 students are from non-English-speaking language backgrounds.