Deception Bay State High School
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| Deception Bay State High School | |
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| Coordinates | 27°12′03″S 153°01′51″E / 27.2009°S 153.0307°E |
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| Type | Public, co-educational, secondary, day school |
| Motto | Empowering Learners to Thrive |
| Established | 1992 |
| Principal | Goldy Sodhi |
| Colours | Maroon, white and black |
| Website | deceptionbayshs.eq.edu.au |
Deception Bay State High School is a public, co-educational, high school, located in the City of Moreton Bay suburb of Deception Bay, in Queensland, Australia.[1][2] It is administered by the Department of Education, with an enrolment of 1,361 students and a teaching staff of 88, as of 2023.[2] The school serves students from Year 7 to Year 12.[1][2]
Prior to the schools opening, the land was a plantation of pine trees,[3] the school opened on 1 January 1992.[4]
In September 2008, it was believed the school was one of many locations of a cancer cluster,[5] due to eleven staff members contracting cancer within the past few years,[6] with three cases being diagnosed since November the previous year.[3] Two of the eleven cases, however, were pre-existing before the staff members arrived at the school.[3] It was investigated by the Queensland Government[7] after the cases had been identified[8] and was declared safe in December 2008, after finding no evidence of contamination in the soil, water or the air.[7] If it would have deemed unsafe, the school would have been abandoned.[9]