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Started nearly 200 years ago with one school, two teachers and 56 students. Now there is one-hundred and thirty nine schools, one-thousand staff and seventy-two thousand students.
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First Catholic School made by lay couple Mary and Michel Bird. It was located near Saint Stephens Cathedral stands today.
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First Permanent Church in Brisbane called Saint Stephens.
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Arch Bishop, James Dewiely, invested in large blocks of land around Brisbane. By 1930 he had made 28 new schools.
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Today Catholic Schools still struggle today with the costs still increasing today.
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In 1945 they had great depression, poverty and unemployment. Some schools helped other family's by giving them some money or offering them some cheaper fees. 19 new schools were open.
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Farther Bernard O'shea was the dosses director of catholic education. He would become instrumental in leading us through the transformation of catholic education in Brisbane.
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26 new schools were open (in 15 years) first time in nearly 100 years that Catholic Schools have revised government founding.
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19 new schools are funded by State Government, Commonwealth Government and parents. Now the children have accuses to technology.
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After 40 years in Brisbane Catholic education, Fr Bernard O'shea was replaced by the first lay director, Vince O'Rourke.
