Tamborine Mountain State High School

Tamborine Mountain State High School
Tamborine Mount State High School, 2023
Address
Holt Road, North Tamborine QLD, Australia
Coordinates	27°55′59″S 153°11′26″E / 27.93306°S 153.19056°E / -27.93306; 153.19056
Information
Type	Co-educational state secondary (Year 7–12)
Established	1999
Principal	Tracey Brose
School roll	898 (2023)
Website	https://tamborinemtnshs.eq.edu.au/

Tamborine Mountain State High School is a co-educational, state secondary school located in Tamborine Mountain, in the Scenic Rim Region, Queensland, Australia.^[1] It is administered by the Department of Education. As of 2023, it had an enrollment of 898 students and a teaching staff of 85.^[2]

Tamborine Mountain State High School originally opened its doors on 29 January 1990, under the name Helensvale State High School.^[3] In 1999, Tamborine Mountain State High School opened as an annex of Helensvale State High School,^[4] known as 'Helensvale State High School, Tamborine Mountain Campus' from 1 January 1999 to 31 December 2000.^[3] By 2001, Tamborine Mountain State High School became a standalone school,^[3] with a name change on 1 January 2001 from 'Helensvale State High School, Tamborine Mountain Campus' to 'Tamborine Mountain State High School',^[3] and was given its independence, becoming a full-fledged high school in its own right by 2002.^[4] The first group of Year 12s graduated in 2002.^{[citation needed]}

In 2019, Tamborine Mountain State High School principal Tracey Brose launched defamation action against five parents, claiming more than $1 million in damages for comments made about her on Facebook and a Change.org petition while she was temporarily suspended from her job in 2016.^[5][6] In 2020, Judge Catherine Muir ruled in favour of Brose and ordered Donna and Miguel Baluskas to pay $3000 in damages each.^[7][8]

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