Acacia Ridge

Acacia Ridge is a southern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Acacia Ridge is a southern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Acacia Ridge had a population of 7,429 people.

The name Acacia Ridge derives from the number of Acacia species growing in the area.In October 1884, 275 allotments of "Flemington Estate" were advertised for sale by T. Howling & Co. A map advertising the sale states that the estate was close to the Coopers Plains railway station and that coaches passed the estate every day.Cooper's Plains Provisional School No 25 in 1869 opened on 1 April 1869, later becoming Cooper's Plains State School. On 10 July 1956 it was renamed Acacia Ridge State School.The suburb was established after World War II to house returning servicemen and their families. Many of the original post-war dwellings still stand today.

Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church was established on 5 acres (2.0 ha) on land on the corner of Beaudesert and Mortimer Roads in Coopers Plains which was bought in April 1949 from Arthur Harper for £2250 by the parish priest of Moorooka, Father Flanagan. He also arranged for an old army hut to be relocated from the Archerfield Airport to the church site and spent £720 converting the building into a church. The church was officially dedicated on Sunday 26 March 1950 by James Duhig, the Archbishop of Brisbane, with about 150 people attending. Two further army huts were relocated to the site. One of them was used to establish Our Lady of Fatima School which opened on 25 January 1954. At its opening the school had 78 pupils taught by two Sisters of St Primary Joseph led by Sister Ibar. On 5 June 1966, Archbishop Patrick Mary O'Donnell opened the new brick church building, with the former church building being used as a hall. On 24 January 1971, the new school was officially opened by Bishop Henry Joseph Kennedy with 8 classrooms, an office, a staff room and a sick room. By that time there were 260 students and 7 staff.Acacia Ridge Methodist Church was established in 1966. On the creation of the Uniting Church in Australia, it became the Acacia Ridge Uniting Church.Watson Road State School opened on 23 January 1967.Acacia Ridge State High School opened on 25 January 1971 and closed on 31 December 1997. It amalgamated with Salisbury State High School to form Nyanda State High School.The suburb was officially named and bounded on 11 August 1975.St Alban's Anglican Church closed circa 1980. The church building relocated to the Anglican Church of the Holy Spirit in neighbouring Algester to be used as a parish hall.The Aboriginal and Islander Independent Community School (also known as The Murri School) was opened 1 January 1986 in a disused Catholic primary school in Highgate Hill. In 1995 the school relocated to a disused state school in Milton. In 1997 the school obtained its current site in Acacia Ridge.In the 2011 census, Acacia Ridge recorded a population of 6,945 people.In the 2016 census, Acacia Ridge had a population of 7,429 people.