Sarina State High School is located in the small rural town of Sarina, Queensland

Queensland

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, Australia

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. The school had 600 students in 2007 with a reported 20 percent continuing studies at University

University

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The school runs a community based literacy intervention program to assist students in all years with literacy

Literacy

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 and numeracy

Numeracy

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There is a $A659,000 vocational qualifications agricultural

Agriculture

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initiative underway at the school that has national ministerial support.