A secondary school or high school is an institution that provides secondary education . Some secondary schools provide both lower secondary education (ages 11 to 14) and upper secondary education (ages 14 to 18), i.e., both levels 2 and 3 of the ISCED scale, but these can also be provided in separate schools. There may be other variations in the provision: for example, children in Australia, Hong Kong, and Spain change from the primary to secondary systems a year later at the age of 12, with the ISCED's first year of lower secondary being the last year of primary provision.
29-606: The Associated Independent Colleges , or AIC , is a group of independent secondary schools in south-east Queensland , Australia. With the exception of St Peters Lutheran College , AIC schools are all-boys schools (St Peter's secondary girls compete in the Queensland Girls' Secondary Schools Sports Association ). The AIC was founded in 1998 as an athletic association for male secondary students. All eight colleges were formerly members of The Associated Schools (TAS), founded in 1956. Some colleges were originally members of
58-419: A high school (abbreviated as HS or H.S. ), can also be called senior high school . In some countries there are two phases to secondary education (ISCED 2) and (ISCED 3), here the junior high school , intermediate school, lower secondary school, or middle school occurs between the primary school (ISCED 1) and high school. Marist College Ashgrove Marist College Ashgrove (abbreviated as MCA )
87-615: A different education system and priorities. Schools need to accommodate students, staff, storage, mechanical and electrical systems, support staff, ancillary staff and administration. The number of rooms required can be determined from the predicted roll of the school and the area needed. According to standards used in the United Kingdom, a general classroom for 30 students needs to be 55 m , or more generously 62 m . A general art room for 30 students needs to be 83 m , but 104 m for 3D textile work. A drama studio or
116-628: A greater variety of classes, or sponsoring a greater number of extra-curricular activities . (Some of these benefits can also be achieved through smaller but specialized schools, such as a dedicated special school for students with disabilities or a magnet school for students with a particular subject-matter interest.) In terms of structure, organization, and relationships, larger schools tend to be more hierarchical and bureaucratic , with fewer and weaker personal connections and more rigidly defined, unvarying roles for all staff. Teachers find that large schools result in more information to process in
145-422: A secondary school may have a canteen, serving a set of foods to students, and storage where the equipment of a school is kept. Government accountants having read the advice then publish minimum guidelines on schools. These enable environmental modelling and establishing building costs. Future design plans are audited to ensure that these standards are met but not exceeded. Government ministries continue to press for
174-561: A single basketball court could serve a school with 200 students just as well as a school with 500 students, so construction and maintenance costs, on a per-student basis, can be lower for larger schools. However, cost savings from larger schools have generally not materialized, as larger schools require more administrative support staff, and rural areas see the potential savings offset by increased transportation costs. Larger schools can also support more specialization, such as splitting students into advanced, average, and basic tracks , offering
203-417: A specialist science laboratory for 30 needs to be 90 m . Examples are given on how this can be configured for a 1,200 place secondary (practical specialism). and 1,850 place secondary school. The ideal size for a typical comprehensive high school is large enough to offer a variety of classes, but small enough that students develop a sense of community. Research has suggested that academic achievement
232-648: Is also held in Term 4, with the annual Gordon Balharry Shield awarded to the AIC school with the best team score on an adjusted handicap basis. Rugby league and Australian rules football competitions were introduced on a two-year opt-in trial basis for 2019. Ashgrove, Iona and St Laurence's have traditionally been prominent in the rugby competitions, although Padua has enjoyed recent success. St Peters, Villanova and Padua have tended to field strong soccer teams. St Patrick's has had success in cross country and Ashgrove and Iona have won
261-569: Is an independent Roman Catholic day and boarding primary and secondary school for boys , located in the northern Brisbane suburb of Ashgrove , in Queensland , Australia. The college caters for students from Year 5 to Year 12 . Marist College Ashgrove was founded by the Marist Brothers as a day and boarding College for boys on 17 March 1940. Enrolment preferences are given to baptised Catholics, with participation in
290-550: Is best when there are about 150 to 250 students in each grade level, and that above a total school size of 2,000 for a secondary school, academic achievement and the sense of school community decline substantially. Arguments in favor of smaller schools include having a shared experience of school (e.g., everyone takes the same classes, because the school is too small to offer alternatives), higher average academic achievement, and lower inequality . Arguments in favor of larger schools tend to focus on economy of scale . For example,
319-479: Is played as a social competition on an opt-in basis by AIC schools. Touch Football is played as a social competition once a year between AIC schools, with teams competing in senior (10-12), middle (7-9) and primary (5-6) teams. Aside from athletic competitions, the AIC has formed a community with many other interactions. Member schools participate in the QDU debating competition, various mission and social justice events,
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#1732780484507348-618: The Combined Independent Colleges (CIC) association for private primary schools in 1998. Six of the Associated Independent Colleges were foundation members of the CIC. The Combined Independent Colleges association was dissolved in 2013. Primary schools attached to AIC schools had previously competed against their Great Public Schools (GPS) counterparts within the CIC, but the headmasters of
377-532: The ISCED 2014 education scale, levels 2 and 3 correspond to secondary education which are as follows: Within the English-speaking world, there are three widely used systems to describe the age of the child. The first is the 'equivalent ages'; then countries that base their education systems on the 'English model' use one of two methods to identify the year group, while countries that base their systems on
406-612: The United Kingdom , most state schools and privately funded schools accommodate pupils between the ages of 11 and 16 or between 11 and 18; some UK private schools, i.e. public schools , admit pupils between the ages of 13 and 18. Secondary schools follow on from primary schools and prepare for vocational or tertiary education . In high and middle income countries, attendance is usually compulsory for students at least until age 16. The organisations, buildings, and terminology are more or less unique in each country. In
435-521: The 'American K–12 model' refer to their year groups as 'grades'. The Irish model is structured similarly to the English model, but differs significantly in terms of labels. This terminology extends into the research literature. Below is a comparison of some countries: Schools exist within a strict legal framework where they may be answerable to their government through local authorities and their stakeholders. In England (but necessarily in other parts of
464-409: The 'minimum' space and cost standards to be reduced. The UK government published this downwardly revised space formula in 2014. It said the floor area should be 1050 m (+ 350 m if there is a sixth form) + 6.3 m /pupil place for 11- to 16-year-olds + 7 m /pupil place for post-16s. The external finishes were to be downgraded to meet a build cost of £1113/m . A secondary school locally may be called
493-703: The Church given more consideration. The College educates 1700 students from Years 5 to 12, 170 of whom are boarders, and provides wide-ranging programs encompassing academics, the visual and performing arts, sports and service projects. The ethos and mission of the College are influenced by the founder of the Marist Brothers, Saint Marcellin Champagnat . The college is situated on a 26-hectare (64-acre) campus and includes such facilities as: In 1993,
522-544: The GPS and AIC associations expanded their respective competitions in 2014 to include primary students from grades 5–7. Starting in 2022, Ambrose Treacy College , Indooroopilly was invited to become a guest member for a two-year time span. There are currently ten sports officially contested within the AIC: Four other sports are also offered: Water polo is played as a social competition in Term 4. An invitational golf day
551-688: The Greater Brisbane Region and South East Queensland , along with many country students from Outback Queensland and regional Australia. International students also board from the Asia-Pacific region from countries and territories such as Papua New Guinea , the Solomon Islands and Hong Kong . The crest of the college is based on the design of the crest of St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill in Sydney. The four quadrants of
580-550: The House system was established. There are eight houses at Marist College Ashgrove: Marist College Ashgrove is a member of the Associated Independent Colleges (AIC). Marist College Ashgrove has won the following AIC premierships. Marist College Ashgrove offers a boarding school for students from Years 6 to 12 and can cater for up to 220 boarders. The boarding community includes many students from
609-596: The Metropolitan Catholic Schools Association (MCSA), founded in 1934. The most prominent sports contested include rugby union , cricket and football , as well as swimming and track and field . The Associated Independent Colleges was formed in 1998 with the first year of competition being 1999. All AIC members were previously in The Associated Schools (TAS). The TAS had expanded to include fifteen schools by
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#1732780484507638-602: The Queensland Catholic Colleges Music Festival (QCMF) and other social functions. As all AIC schools are of Christian denomination, an Ecumenical service is hosted each year by one of the schools on a rotational basis. It is attended by staff and student leaders representing each school. Secondary school In the United States , most local secondary education systems have separate middle schools and high schools . In
667-743: The United Kingdom) there are six general types of state-funded schools running in parallel to the private sector. The state takes an interest in safeguarding issues in all schools. All state-funded schools in England are legally required to have a website where they must publish details of their governance, finance, curriculum intent and staff and pupil protection policies to comply with The School Information (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 and 2016 . Ofsted monitors these. School building design does not happen in isolation. The building or school campus needs to accommodate: Each country will have
696-442: The education has to fulfill the needs of: students, teachers, non-teaching support staff, administrators and the community. It has to meet general government building guidelines, health requirements, minimal functional requirements for classrooms, toilets and showers, electricity and services, preparation and storage of textbooks and basic teaching aids. An optimum secondary school will meet the minimum conditions and will have: Also,
725-410: The larger environment (e.g., announcements about 100 programs instead of just 10) and that as individuals they form fewer relationships with teachers outside of their primary subject area. Smaller schools have less social isolation and more engagement. These effects cannot be entirely overcome through implementation of a house system or " school within a school " programs. The building providing
754-476: The mid 1990s and the standard of competition was falling. The colleges with the strongest athletic programs in the TAS competition's top division moved to form the AIC. After the AIC was founded, only one all-boys school remained in TAS, the now defunct Marist Brothers College Rosalie . In protest of the departure of the eight AIC schools from TAS competition, all TAS schools with a primary school attached withdrew from
783-427: The most titles in athletics and swimming. The sporting calendar for the AIC is split into terms: The championships for swimming, cross country, track and field athletics and golf are held on a single day. The other sports are played in a round-robin format (no finals) with each school playing all others once. Premierships in each grade, for age divisions from under 13 to open, are won by the teams with most points over
812-1932: The season. The premierships for the schools' first teams in each sport, particularly the First XV rugby, tend to attract the most interest. Winning teams on aggregate points for all age groups: Championships – Ashgrove (14), Iona (9), St Edmund's (3). Winning teams on aggregate points for all age groups: Championships – Ashgrove (13), Iona (9), St Patrick's (5), St Laurence's (2). Winning teams on aggregate points for all age groups: Championships – Ashgrove (13), St Peters (12), Iona (2). List of First XV premiers and runners-up: Premierships – Ashgrove (14), St Laurence's (6), Iona (4), Padua (4), St Peters (2), St Edmund's (2), St Patrick's (1), Villanova (1). Notes : List of First XI premiers and runners-up: Premierships – Ashgrove (10), Iona (9), Villanova (6), St Laurence's (2), St Patrick's (2), Padua (1). List of First XI premiers and runners-up: Premierships – Ashgrove (11), Villanova (5), Iona (4), St Patrick's (3), St Laurence's (3), Padua (2), St Edmund's (1), St Peters (1). List of First VI premiers and runners-up: Premierships – Ashgrove (6), St Edmund's (5), St Peters (3), Villanova (4), Padua (3), St Laurence's (3), Iona (3), St Patrick's (1). List of First V premiers: Premierships – Ashgrove (10), Villanova (10), Iona (4), St Edmund's (4), Padua (3), St Laurence's (1), St Patrick's (1), St Peters (1). List of First IV premiers: Premierships - St Peters (11), Ashgrove (6), Villanova (5), Iona (2), Padua (1), St Edmund's (1), St Patrick's (1), St Laurence's (1) The AIC chess competition began in 2004. List of First IV premiers: Premierships – St Laurence's (6), Padua (5), Ashgrove (4), Villanova (3), St Peters (3), St Edmund's (2), Iona (1). The AIC competition
841-525: Was introduced in 2019. List of First XVIII premiers: Premierships - St Laurence's (5), Ashgrove (2), Padua (1), Villanova (1), St Patrick's (1) Notes : The AIC competition was introduced in 2019. List of First XIII premiers: Premierships – Padua (2), Ashgrove (1), Villanova (1), St Patrick's (1), Iona (1). Teams of up to five compete for the Gordon Balharry Shield. List of Open team winners since 2011: Water polo
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