 Initially, it had a year 8 intake but also a year 9 intake comprising students who had been bussed to Salisbury High School from Elizabeth as year 8 Students in 1960.For 1961 the school was housed completely in temporary classrooms, the new two wing block not occupied until 1962.With the growth of the suburbs, enrolment rapidly outgrew the permanent buildings in the north-eastern corner of the site, and by the mid-1960s over half the school was housed in "temporary" buildings extending west.