The school is located along Pease Street on low lying land immediately backing on to remnant Cairns Central swamp, first reserved by the State of Queensland to be a State School on 17 December 1938[REF] .
The school was built to service school aged children then living in a small, newly emergent rural township that had been forming along the higher edges of low lying, swampy lands progressively being transformed into market gardens, dairy paddocks and cane fields [REF] .