OP results 2018: Half of Brisbane State High School students gain OP1-5

More than 25,000 Queensland students have received their OP results after years of study, and a whopping 50 per cent of students at one state high school have achieved an OP1-OP5. SEE RESULTS FROM SOME OF QUEENSLAND’S BEST

QUEENSLAND’S top schools are celebrating today as more than 25,000 students receive their OP results after years of study.

Among them is the consistently high-achieving Brisbane State High School, with 67 of their OP eligible students landing at the top of the pack and receiving an OP1.

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Executive principal Wade Haynes said he believed it was the highest number of OP1 results the school had ever achieved.

A further 63 students achieved an OP2.

That comprised 29 per cent of the school’s eligible students, with 50 per cent of the school’s students receiving between an OP1 and OP5.

“We are very proud of the efforts of our students and their teachers,” Mr Haynes said.

At St Aidan’s Anglican College, almost 10 per cent of their students received an OP1, with 42 per cent achieving an OP1 to OP5.

Brisbane State High School. Picture: Annette Dew

Principal Toni Riordan said they were “outstanding” results, and said it reflected the “hard work and dedication” of the 2018 cohort.

Meanwhile The Lakes College was celebrating its first OP1 student, while a quarter of all eligible students received an OP1 to OP3.

“These outstanding results affirm the College’s mission to provide excellence in education and reflects our high quality of teaching,” Principal Simon Armstrong said.