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Another significant milestone achieved by the School Pupils Index team

369,500 new records added to the online database!

A further 369,500 entries have been added to the online Queensland School Pupils Index Part 7 database in April. In total, our index to school pupils now has over 5 million records. 

Where we have extracted the pupil names directly from admission registers, a 20 year closure has been observed as recommended by the Queensland State Archives. Schools range from large city ones, with admissions in the thousands, to country one-teacher schools with a total enrolment of hundreds. Some schools have long ceased to exist; others are still functioning. 

All additional names are from admission registers. The schools include both large and small from across Queensland – including Acacia Ridge SHS, Balaclava SS, Biloela SHS, Deception Bay North SS, Mabel Park schools, Southport SS, Thursday Island SHS, Weipa North SS, William Duncan SS and Wonglepong SS.  

Check out the list of schools here to find those marked “new”.   

Congratulations to the QSPI team who contributed to these additional records: Dorothy Jeffrey, Lyn Hooper, Maureen Arthur, Wendy Couper, Jackie Buttress, Mary Geiger, Bev Bonning, Eric and Rosemary Kopittke with technical support and dataset maintenance provided by John Perryn. 

Teacher and pupils of Glenview State School, ca. 1911

Back row (from left to right): George Skerman, Walter Skerman, Walter Jones, Alf Wendt, May Cramb, Doris Nichol, Warnes, Flo Munro.
Second row: Frank Wendt, Pat Sylvester, Wendt, Cramb, Doris Knop, Lyn Skerman, Florrie Braidenberry, Isabella Munro, Edith Munro.
Front row: Miss Handley (Mrs T. Rapjohns).
Unidentified students, Wendt, Cramb.
School identified as probably Glenview school near

Image & description: State Library of Queensland

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