Wooloowin State School

Wooloowin State School
Wooloowin State School, 2015
Location	663 Lutwyche Road, Lutwyche, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Coordinates	27°25′03″S 153°02′14″E / 27.4175°S 153.0371°E / -27.4175; 153.0371Coordinates: 27°25′03″S 153°02′14″E / 27.4175°S 153.0371°E / -27.4175; 153.0371
Design period	1900 - 1914 (early 20th century)
Built	1914 - 1934
Queensland Heritage Register
Official name: Wooloowin State School
Type	state heritage (built)
Designated	13 January 1995
Reference no.	601565
Significant period	1914-1930s (historical) 1914-1930s (fabric) 1914 ongoing (social)
Significant components	school/school room, classroom/classroom block/teaching area
Location of Wooloowin State School in Queensland

Wooloowin State School is a heritage-listed public co–educational primary school at 663 Lutwyche Road, Lutwyche, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1914 to 1934. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 13 January 1995.

Wooloowin State School was built in four stages. The first section was constructed in 1914, with additions in 1918, 1925 and 1934. In 1914, it was considered a model school at the forefront of progressive education in Queensland, and this was reflected in the building, grounds, furniture, equipment, facilities, curriculum, and staff. It was a model school for a modern, rapidly expanding suburb.

Originally part of Lutwyche, Wooloowin was named after the Wooloowin railway station (on the line to Northgate Junction) which was opened in November 1889. The area had developed a suburban identity in the 1880s, when the larger estates were subdivided, but in the first half of the 20th century, particularly following the extension of the tramline along Lutwyche Road to Kedron in 1913-1914, Wooloowin really boomed as a residential working class suburb.

In 1911, the Wooloowin Progress Association was formed. Its first secretary was Mr William Alfred Jolly, later Mayor of Windsor, and in 1925, first Lord Mayor of Greater Brisbane. It was largely due to the work of the Wooloowin Progress Association, who formed a school building committee in October 1911, that the Wooloowin State School was established. Prior to 1914, Wooloowin children attended the overcrowded state schools at Eagle Junction and Bowen Bridge Road.

The Department of Public Instruction purchased Nolan's Paddock, a three acre site on Lutwyche Road, for £1,200, and the design for a new school for this site was prepared in the Government Architect's Office of the Department of Public Works in 1913.