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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 12 Hansard (21 November) . . Page.. 4150 ..
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION
QUESTION NUMBER 333
Gungahlin - High School
1 What is the current timetable for the construction of a high school in Gungahlin.
2 What is the status of plans for Gungahlin's initial Year 7 students to be accommodated and taught in Gungahlin's primary schools pending the opening of their local high school.
MR STEFANIAK - the answers to Ms Follett's questions are:
1 The first high school to be established in Gungahlin is to be located in the suburb of Nicholls and is to open for the commencement of the 1998 school year. The construction timetable provides for completion of the school buildings and associated landscape works by 23 December 1997. The gymnasium complex is to be completed by 14 April 1998.
2 The high school in Nicholls will enrol year 7 and 8 students for the commencement of the 1998 school year. Until 1998, high school students resident in Gungahlin are guaranteed a place at Lyneham High School, the "holding school". They can also attend other high schools of their choice (subject to capacity of those schools).
A number of possible options for year 7 students in 1997, were discussed with the community. Establishing a year 7 in a local Gungahlin primary school would have been viable if a minimum enrolment of 30 students could be reached. Unfortunately this number of students could not be identified in time for the necessary planning to occur.
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