Ambrose Treacy College

Patrick Ambrose Treacy

The school was established on 28 January 2015 and was formerly Nudgee Junior College (the junior school for St Joseph's College, Nudgee) and was named after Patrick Ambrose Treacy, a leading educator within the Christian Brothers who established many church schools in Australia.

The school teaches boys from years 4 to 12 and follows the Edmund Rice Tradition; however until 2019 it will be in transition from its former junior school structure and will add an upper year level annually. It will reach year 12 and teach all year levels (4-12) by 2019. The school is split up into three categories: years 4 to 6 are in the Junior School, years 7 to 9 are in the Middle School and Years 10 to 12 are in the Senior School.[1] The current principal is Chris Ryan. The former principle of Ambrose Treacy College is Michael Senior, Senior retired from his post as principal in November 2019 after the departure of the school's first graduating class.[2]

The Edmund Rice building (containing the main reception and chapel) was built in 1938 to provide additional boarding accommodation for St Joseph's College at Nudgee. It was officially opened and blessed on 10 July 1938 by the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane, James Duhig. In 1994, all of the boarding was relocated to the Nudgee site and the Indooroopilly site became a day school for junior students. It is listed on the Brisbane Heritage Register as it is an excellent example of Interwar Functionalist architecture with its simple geometric volumes, asymmetrical massing and distinctive Modernist windows.[3]