Adelaide’s newest high school featuring a multi-storey building with a glass atrium linking to the refurbished University of South Australia Reid Building has officially opened its doors to students.
The $100 million Adelaide Botanic High School, on Frome Road in the CBD, has welcomed 350 Year 8 and 9 students as the school holidays ended and Term 1, 2019 began.
The six-storey institution will have a strong focus on STEM education (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) in aim of preparing students to enter the workforce of the future.
Key design features include external learning and recreation spaces on the upper levels of the building and also around the parklands. The school also houses a music and drama theatre with a typographical projector, modern laboratories with investigative science equipment and food technology kitchens.
Students in senior grades will fill the school in coming years, with enrolments eventually totalling about 1250. From 2022 the school will also take Year 7s as all SA public high schools move towards the Year 7-12 model.
The $100 million Adelaide Botanic High School has opened its doors to Year 8s and 9s. Photo by Chin Tan, Cox Architecture.
Adelaide Botanic High School is adjacent the Adelaide Park Lands, Adelaide Botanic Gardens and is nearby the state library, museum, art gallery and the University of Adelaide.
Premier Steven Marshall said in December 2019 that the school’s location next to the highly anticipated Australian Space Agency headquarters and the rest of the Lot Fourteen innovation precinct will offer “unprecedented opportunities for students”.
Botanic High will share a single zone with Adelaide High School, located on West Terrace.
Adelaide Botanic High School features:
- Science, design and technology labs that underpin the school’s focus on STEM.
- State of the art engineering and investigative science equipment.
- Food technology kitchens.
- Spaces to encourage creativity in design technology, media studies and art.
- Performing arts theatre
- A modern library and research centre.
- External learning and recreation spaces around the parklands and on the school’s upper levels.
- Indoor gym and fitness studio.
- Cafeteria with an outdoor terrace.
- Basement parking for 170 bicycles.
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