A new home for a specialist Aboriginal high school in Adelaide's west has been found after months of negotiations. 25 million dollars will be spent shifting Warriapendi School with the move forced by the final stages of the North-South Corridor upgrade.
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00:00 For nearly 30 years, Josephine Judge-Rigney has dedicated her working life to the students
00:07 of Warrapindi School.
00:08 A lot of them come from Alice Springs, they come from the north, south, east and west,
00:16 they come from Sojourner, Port Augusta.
00:18 Generations of Aboriginal high school students have been taught here at Marlstone in Adelaide's
00:22 inner west.
00:23 But the campus has to go to make way for the $15.4 billion Torrens to Darlington road upgrade.
00:29 The site at Richmond Road is a postage stamp and at the moment we have around 100 enrolments
00:35 at that site.
00:36 The school will be relocated to the former Tech Inn SA site in Theberton, nearly 4km
00:42 away.
00:43 It'll cost $25 million taken from the Tunnel Project's budget.
00:47 The new school site is bigger and backs onto the River Torrens.
00:51 It's home away from home, you know what I mean, you have the river, you have the flowing
00:57 of the river, the smell in the air compared to where we are.
01:02 It's not often in political careers you can come and do something as amazing as this but
01:06 we have found I think the perfect site.
01:08 Which will allow the school to grow to at least 150 students.
01:13 They've made sure that we've having a lot more classrooms here, especially now with
01:18 the facilities because that was part of the big problem.
01:20 It's going to offer that extra green space that the current site doesn't have.
01:24 The move is set to be completed in time for the start of the 2025 school year before major
01:29 works on the road begin.
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