History
On February 8 1910, 79 students together with eight teachers and an Acting Headmaster, began classes in a couple of disused rooms at the Gordon Institute of TAFE. John William Gray was appointed Headmaster in April of 1910. Twelve months later, enrollment had increased to 150 and 12 rooms were being used at the Gordon. The school was renamed the Geelong High School and as such became Geelong's first State Secondary School. The current site was selected and the new school, to accommodate 450 students, was completed in August 1915.
The school has recently undergone some major reconstruction, providing new woodwork and metalwork studios, science labs, computer pods and a new gymnasium and library, in addition to a learning centre complete with a computer pod, classrooms and a theatrette. The work was done to accommodate and assist Year 7 students in their learning.
Geelong High School has been identified as one of the 50 "most needy schools" in the state of Victoria, in an audit conducted by the Victorian state government. This has led to students sending letters to MHR for Corio Richard Marles, as well as other politicians, writing of "teachers and students working in classrooms with cracked walls, substandard heating and no cooling" - pleading for funding to fix and upgrade the school.
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