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Brighton Secondary School (formerly Brighton High School) resides in North Brighton, a beach suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. The school provides secondary education from year 8 to 12, with special interest programs in music, volleyball, 'Think Bright', and STEM. Program entry into music and volleyball are competitive with the requirement of auditions or try outs. Entry into Think Bright and STEM are via written application, workshop and a conversation with staff.
It is one of four Special Interest Music Centres, with those at Brighton and Marryatville High Schools set up 1976, Woodville High School in 1977 and Playford International College (previously known as Fremont-Elizabeth City High School and in 1977, "Fremont High School") in 1978 covering four distinct geographical areas of Adelaide.
At the Australian National Championships held in Melbourne each year. Brighton Secondary School was named Champion Volleyball School in Australia in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2014 and 2015.
The school won the Adelaide Rock Eisteddfod Challenge competition in 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2008 and came 2nd in state for Wakakirri in 2007, receiving the silver award and 4th in 2008.[citation needed]In 2011 they won the Adelaide and National TV Special Award for MAX.
The school is also involved in the F1 in Schools, an engineering initiative from the United Kingdom. The program is designed to educate students in engineering pathways, and the school has had teams in the national competition for the last three years. The school's team, Infinitude, currently holds the F1 in Schools World Record after breaking it at the 2016 World Finals in Austin, Texas, in collaboration with St Bede's College,