Townsville State High School

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Townsville State High School is a school in the Australian state of Queensland. It is also known as Town High.

Townsville State High School was established in 1924 and is located at 36-64 Boundary St, Railway Estate, Townsville. It was formerly located at the current campus of the Townsville TAFE.

There are five houses at the school named after reefs of the Queensland coast:

Warrior - Blue
Keeper - Pink
Faraday - Yellow
Brewer - Red
Needle - Green

The principal of Townsville state high school is currently Scott Stewart who took over from Ian Smythe who is currently the Chief Executive for the Townsville Crocodiles.

Town High is known for its Basketball program called the Town High Tropics. Town High has been involved in many programs such as jump rope for heart, clean up Australia day, Optiminds, young diplomats program, ANZAC day march, shave for a cure, New Zealand ski trip, star struck, Inspiring young Australians, CREST, Japan tour and hosting with the sister school Matsudo Mabashi as well as an "Energy Farm" that helps supply energy to the library.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]