Bentley Park College

Bentley Park College is a co-educational, state run school located in Bentley Park, Queensland, Australia. The school educates students from preschool to 12th grade.[4]

Bentley Park College
Location
Bentley Park, Cairns
,
Queensland
,
4869

Australia
Coordinates17°0′33″S 145°44′29″E
Information
TypeState secondary day school
MottoAspire, Learn, Achieve[1][2]
Established1997[1]
PrincipalBruce Houghton[2]
GradesPre–12
GenderCoeducational
Enrolment1,660 (August 2022)[3]: 2 
Websitewww.bentleyparkcollege.eq.edu.au

In 1997 (term 4), the school opened as a primary school in Centenary Park called "Edmonton State School", after a nearby town. In 1998, it was renamed Bentley Park College with commencement in operation as a P-7 school, a corresponding name change which was subsequently reflected in the suburb of "Centenary Park", which was re-named "Bentley Park".[1]

In 2011, the school's original motto, "Achieving Tomorrow's Visions Today" was replaced with its current motto of "Aspire Learn Achieve".[1]

Infrastructure

Medical Precinct

In 2022, Bentley Park College launched a $1.4m medical precinct, allowing High school students throughout Cairns to fast track their career in health care.[5]

Sports

On 25 February 2019, Bentley Park College launched a $1.65 million sport hall upgrade, funded under the Queensland Government’s $200 million Advancing Schools initiative, an external covered multi-purpose court, new louvre systems, covered entrances, and a new kinesiology laboratory, with space for a full class of students, laptops and a fully equipped gym.[6]

Students

Bentley Original

A "Bentley Original" is a term coined for a student who attended Bentley Park College from Preschool, Prep or Year 1 until their Year 12 Graduation. The terms was coined by a group of year 11 Bentley Park College students in 2010 ("2012 Bentley Originals"), a year after the graduation of the initial students who met the "Bentley Originals" requirement, i.e. those beginning Preschool in 1998, or Year 1 in 1999, and graduating in 2009.[7]

Years

The school first opened its doors to preschool age students in 1997.[1] In 1998, it commenced operation as a P-7 school.[1]

On 17 September 2001, Middle School specialist and general learning classrooms, Middle and Senior School Library, College Administration building and Middle and Senior School Canteen were officially opened. In 2001, The school began accepting middle school students (grades 6–9). In 2002, senior school students (grades 10–12). In 2003–2004, senior school students moved into their own building apart from the middle school students. The first cohort of Year 12s graduated in 2004.[1]

In 2011, the middle school was removed paving the way for year 7 to transition into high school ahead of other schools in the area, with the former 'Junior School' (Years P-5), 'Middle School' (Years 6-9) and 'Senior School' (Years 10-12) being merged into two sectors: P-6 and 7-12[1]

In 2015, Anna Bligh's state-wide "Flying Start" program was officially implemented to align Queensland with the other states by transferring year 7 into the high school system,[8] As a result, Bentley Park College moved its Year 7 into the high school domain in 2015.[1][9]: 2 

Class Sizes

The trend in the average size of classes has been: -

Movie Premiers
Year Prep – Year 3 Year 4 – 6 Year 7 – 10 Year 11 – 12
2009 25 25 15 21[10]: 3 
2010 25 25 14 21[11]: 3 
2011 23 25 24 19[12]: 3 
2012 23 25 24 17[12]: 3 
2013 23 23 24 18[12]: 3 
2014 23 25 23 18[13]: 4 
2015 24 26 24 19[9]: 3 
2016 23 27 23 18[14]: 6 
2017 22 25 23 18[15]: 7 
2018 23 26 24 15[16]: 6 
2019 22 26 22 13[17]: 3 
2020 20 24 22 15[18]: 2 
2021 20 18 22 17[19]: 2 
2022 23 19 22 17[3]: 2 
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Student Enrolments

In 2023, Bentley Park College was reported to have a maximum student enrolment capacity of 2,270 students.[20] The 2023, limit on students entering the Prep in any given year was 150 students in 6 classrooms, which was only to be exceeded if there were more than 150 students enrolling from within the catchment area.[20]

In 2005, there were approximately 1800 students enrolled in the school, 400 of which were senior school students. The trend in school enrolments (August figures) has been:-

Year Years Gender Total
Prep 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Boys Girls
2009 - - - - - - - - - - - - - 902 782 1,684-[10]: 3 
2010 - - - - - - - - - - - - - 899 782 1,681[11]: 3 
2011 - - - - - - - - - - - - - 886 769 1,655[21]: 3 
2012 - - - - - - - - - - - - - 824 744 1,568[22]: 3 
2013 - - - - - - - - - - - - - 811 705 1,516[12]: 3 
2014 - - - - - - - - - - - - - 775 655 1,430[13][23]: 4 
2015 - - - - - - - - - - - - - 798 680 1,478[9][24]: 2 
2016 - - - - - - - - - - - - - 779 671 1,450[14][25]: 6 
2017 - - - - - - - - - - - - - 814 722 1,536[15][26]: 7 
2018 - - - - - - - - - - - - - 805 727 1,532[16][27]: 6 
2019 - - - - - - - - - - - - - 811 736 1,547[17][28]: 3 
2020 71 64 72 86 97 114 88 206 202 204 172 149 106 873 758 1,631[18][29]: 2 
2021 81 76 71 75 86 106 113 201 195 205 200 140 120 887 782 1,669[19][30]: 2 
2022 75 77 84 79 71 96 111 222 194 190 210 154 97 888 772 1,660 [3][31]: 2 
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Attendance

The trend in student attendance has been: -

Year Years
Prep 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
2009 - 92% 90% 93% 91% 94% 90% 91% 90% 86% 82% - -[10]: 8 
2010 - 89% 92% 91% 92% 92% 94% 91% 88% 87% 84% 85% 87%[11]: 9 
2011 - 88% 89% 93% 90% 91% 91% 89% 86% 85% 82% 81% 83%[21]: 12 
2012 - 89% 89% 92% 93% 88% 91% 89% 90% 85% 85% 83% 85%[22]: 12 
2013 90% 89% 89% 90% 91% 94% 93% 89% 86% 87% 80% 82% 85%[12]: 3 
2014 89% 89% 88% 90% 91% 90% 92% 86% 87% 82% 82% 78% 86%[13]: 10 
2015 91% 89% 91% 91% 89% 91% 92% 86% 85% 83% 81% 79% 82%[9]: 3 
2016 90% 91% 89% 91% 93% 89% 90% 89% 83% 84% 83% 82% 84%[14]: 13 
2017 87% 89% 91% 88% 89% 92% 90% 90% 86% 85% 79% 82% 86%[15]: 15 
2018 89% 88% 88% 90% 89% 88% 89% 86% 83% 84% 81% 80% 86%[16]: 16 
2019 87% 86% 86% 87% 88% 86% 86% 87% 85% 82% 83% 83% 84%[17]: 12 
2020 85% 83% 83% 81% 82% 83% 80% 84% 80% 78% 76% 82% 86%[18]: 6 
2021 88% 86% 88% 85% 86% 84% 86% 81% 81% 79% 78% 80% 84%[19]: 7 
2022 83% 84% 82% 83% 85% 81% 83% 83% 74% 79% 72% 77% 86%[3]: 7 
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Discipline

The trend in student discipline has been: -

Movie Premiers
Year Short Suspensions
1 – 15 days		 Long Suspensions
6 – 20 days		 Exclusions Cancellations of Enrolment total
2009 246 44 4 1 295[10]: 3 
2010 339 59 4 0 402[11]: 3 
2011 377 93 19 22 511[21]: 3 
2012 256 63 6 12 337[22]: 3 
2013 293 85 9 37 424[12]: 3 
2014 341 59 11 40 451[13]: 4 
2015 351 71 7 24 453[9]: 3 
2016 266 15 4 11 296[14]: 10 
2017 318 37 5 16 376[15]: 12 
2018 455 51 13 7 526[16]: 12 
2019 311 47 3 8 369[17]: 9 
2020 296 40 8 7 351[18]: 4 
2021 382 29 5 8 424[19]: 3 
2022 446 23 4 27 500[3]: 5 
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Notable Alumni

Sports
Sports
Name Graduation Year Sport Achievements
Chris Wright 2018 Swimmer Competed for Australia at the 2012 London Olympic Games, the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games and 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games and four World Championships. In 2009, Chris broke the Australian record for the men's short course 200m Butterfly.[32]

See also

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