Schools in the ACT |
Information provided by the ACT Department of Education and Training in 2003 and from “75 years of Catholic Education in Canberra”, supplement to The Canberra Times, 5 March 2003.
Further information on each school may be available on the Department’s website.
| Table 1 | Opening Dates of Government Primary Schools |
| Table 2 | Opening Dates of Government High Schools |
| Table 3 | Opening Dates of Government Secondary Colleges |
| Table 4 | Opening Dates of Government Special Schools |
| Table 5 |
Opening Dates of Catholic Schools |
| Table 6 | Opening Dates of Non-Government, Non-Catholic Schools |
Table 1: Opening dates of Government Primary Schools
|
School |
Open date |
Closing/amalgamation date |
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Ainslie |
1927 |
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Aranda |
1969 |
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Arawang |
1989 |
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Bonython |
1992 |
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Calwell |
1989 |
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Campbell |
1961 |
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Chapman |
1975 |
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Charles Conder |
1994 |
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Charnwood |
1975 |
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Chifley |
1966 |
1989 closed and reopened as Melrose |
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Chisholm |
1986 |
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Cook |
1969 |
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Co-operative |
1978 |
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Curtin |
1983 |
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Downer |
1962 |
1989 |
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Duffy |
1973 |
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Duntroon |
1914 |
1971 |
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Evatt |
1974 |
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Fadden |
1985 |
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Farrer |
1970 |
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Fisher |
1972 |
1989 |
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Florey |
1989 |
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Flynn |
1974 |
2006 |
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Forrest |
1958 |
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Fraser |
1979 |
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Garran |
1967 |
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Gilmore |
1983 |
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Giralang |
1977 |
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Gold Creek |
1996 |
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Gordon |
1993 |
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Gowrie |
1983 |
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Griffith |
1955 |
1995 |
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Hackett |
1964 |
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Hall |
1911 |
2006 |
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Hartley Street |
1971 |
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Hawker |
1976 |
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Higgins |
1971 |
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Holder |
1972 |
1991 |
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Holt |
1973 |
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Hughes |
1964 |
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Isabella Plains |
1988 |
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Kaleen |
1976 |
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Latham |
1972 |
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Lyneham |
1959 |
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Lyons |
1966 |
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Macgregor |
1968 |
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Macquarie |
1968 |
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Majura |
1989 |
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Maribyrnong |
1979 |
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Mawson |
1968 |
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Melba |
1973 |
Renamed Mt Rogers Community School 1998 |
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Melrose |
1989 |
2006 |
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Miles Franklin |
1980 |
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Monash |
1982 |
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Mt Neighbour |
1975 |
2006 |
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Mt Rogers Community School |
1998 |
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Narrabundah |
1952 |
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Ngunnawal |
1997 |
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North Ainslie |
1958 |
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North Curtin |
1966 |
1983 North Curtin renamed Curtin |
|
Page |
1970 |
1989 |
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Palmerston |
1995 |
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Pearce |
1967 |
1989 |
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Red Hill |
1960 |
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Richardson |
1984 |
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Rivett |
1972 |
2006 |
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Scullin |
1970 |
1989 |
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South Curtin |
1965 |
1983 |
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Southern Cross |
1989 |
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Spence |
1977 |
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Taylor |
1978 |
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Telopea Park |
1923 |
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Tharwa |
1899 |
2006 |
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Theodore |
1991 |
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Torrens |
1968 |
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Turner |
1953 |
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Urambi |
1976 |
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Uriarra |
1936 |
2001 |
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Village Creek |
1975 |
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Wanniassa |
1976 |
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Wanniassa Hills |
1978 |
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Waramanga |
1970 |
1989 reopened as Arawang |
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Watson |
1964 |
1989 and reopened as Majura |
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Weetangera |
1973 |
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Weston |
1971 |
2006 |
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Yarralumla |
1956 |
Table 2: Opening dates of Government High Schools
|
School |
Open date |
Closing/amalgamation date |
|
Alternative Education Program |
1998 |
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Alfred Deakin |
1989 |
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Belconnen |
1971 |
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Calwell |
1990 |
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Campbell |
1965 |
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Canberra |
1938 |
Relocated from North Canberra in 1969 |
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Canberra High |
1938 |
Relocated to Belconnen in 1969 |
|
Caroline Chisholm |
1985 |
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Charnwood |
1981 |
1996 |
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Deakin |
1966 |
Renamed Alfred Deakin High School after amalgamation with Woden Valley High School 1989 |
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Dickson High |
1962 |
Dickson Secondary College in 1976 |
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Ginninderra |
1974 |
2005 |
|
Gold Creek |
1998 |
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Holder |
1975 |
Amalgamated with Weston Creek in 1991 to become Stromlo High School. Holder campus closed in 1993. |
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Kaleen |
1978 |
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Kambah |
1976 |
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Lanyon |
1996 |
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Lyneham |
1959 |
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Melba |
1976 |
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Melrose |
1970 |
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Narrabundah High |
1961 |
Narrabundah Secondary College in 1976 |
|
Secondary IEC |
|
at Dickson College |
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School Without Walls |
1974 |
1997 |
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Southside Alternative Education Program |
1998 |
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Stromlo High School |
1991 |
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Telopea Park |
1984 |
(primary students from 1923) |
|
Wanniassa |
1981 |
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Watson |
1965 |
1988 |
|
Weston Creek |
1972 |
Become Stromlo High School in 1991 |
|
Woden Valley |
1968 |
1989 |
Table 3: Opening dates of Government Secondary Colleges
|
College |
Open date |
Closing/amalgamation date |
|
Canberra College |
1997 |
Formed from the amalgamation of Phillip and Stirling Colleges |
|
Copland |
1978 |
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Dickson College |
1976 |
Prior to 1976 Dickson High School |
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Erindale |
1981 |
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Hawker |
1976 |
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Lake Ginninderra |
1987 |
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Lake Tuggeranong |
1990 |
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Narrabundah |
1976 |
Narrabundah College was Narrabundah High School prior to 1976 |
|
Phillip |
1976 |
Amalgamated with Stirling College in 1997 to form Canberra College – Phillip campus |
|
Schools Without Walls |
1974 |
Also has high school enrolments |
|
Stirling |
1977 |
Amalgamated with Phillip College in 1997 to form Canberra College – Weston campus |
Table 4: Opening dates of Government Special Schools
|
School |
Open date |
Closing/amalgamation date |
|
Cranleigh |
1974 |
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|
Hartley Street |
1971 |
Hartley Street is administratively attached to Turner Primary School. |
|
Black Mountain School |
1954 |
Known as Koomari prior to 2003 |
|
Malkara |
1970 |
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Woden School |
1974 |
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Table 5: Opening dates of Catholic schools
|
School |
Suburb |
Open date |
Close/amalgamation date |
|
St Christopher’s School |
Manuka |
1928 |
1971 |
|
Our Lady of Mercy Primary School |
Braddon |
1935 |
1973 |
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St Edmund’s College |
Griffith |
1954 |
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St Benedict’s Primary |
Narrabundah |
1955 |
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St Jospeph’s Primary |
O’Connor |
1956 |
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St Peter Chanel’s Primary School |
Yarralumla |
1956 |
1989 |
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Merici College, |
Braddon |
1959 |
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St Thomas More’s Primary |
Campbell |
1960 |
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St Brigid’s Primary |
Dickson |
1960 |
1986 |
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St Michael’s Primary |
Lyneham |
1961 |
1973 |
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Daramalan College (Secondary) |
Dickson |
1962 |
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Daramalan College (Primary) |
Dickson |
1962 |
1996 |
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St Bede’s Primary |
Red Hill |
1963 |
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Rosary Primary |
Watson |
1963 |
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St Clare’s College, |
Griffith |
1965 |
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Holy Trinity Primary |
Curtin |
1966 |
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Sts Peter and Paul Primary |
Garran |
1967 |
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Marist College |
Pearce |
1968 |
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St Vincent’s Primary |
Aranda |
1970 |
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Sacred Heart Primary |
Pearce |
1970 |
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St John Vianney’s Primary |
Waramanga |
1971 |
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St Matthew’s Primary |
Page |
1972 |
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St Thomas Aquinas Primary |
Charnwood |
1975 |
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St Jude’s Primary |
Holder |
1975 |
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St Thomas the Apostle Primary |
Kambah |
1977 |
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St Monica’s Primary |
Evatt |
1977 |
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St Francis Xavier College |
Florey |
1976 |
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Padua Catholic High |
Wanniassa |
1978 |
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St John the Apostle Primary |
Florey |
1979 |
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St Anthony’s Primary |
Wanniassa |
1980 |
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St Michael’s Primary |
Kaleen |
1983 |
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Holy Family Primary |
Gowrie |
1985 |
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St Peter’s Catholic College |
Isabella Plains |
1989 |
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St Francis of Assisi Primary |
Calwell |
1988 |
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St Clare of Assisi Primary |
Conder |
1994 |
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Holy Spirit Primary |
Nicholls |
1996 |
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Mackillop Catholic College – |
Tuggeranong |
1997 |
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Good Shepherd Primary |
Amaroo |
2002 |
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Table 6 Non-Government, non-Catholic schools
|
School |
Open Date |
Closing/amalgamation date
|
| Blue Gum School | 1998 | |
|
Brindabella Christian School |
1997 |
Site of the previous O’Connor Christian School which opened in 1980 |
|
Burgmann Anglican School |
1998 |
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Canberra Christian School |
1972 |
Previously known as Mawson Seventh Day Adventist School |
|
Canberra Girls' Grammar |
1926 |
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Canberra Grammar School |
1929 |
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Canberra Montessori School |
1980 |
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Covenant College |
1991 |
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Emmaus Christian School |
1997 |
Site of St Brigid’s Primary School, Dickson |
|
Galilee Day Program |
unknown |
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Orana School |
1981 |
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Radford College |
1984 |
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Trinity Christian School |
1980 |
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