Stafford Heights

Stafford Heights is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Stafford Heights is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Stafford Heights is named because it is on higher ground than its neighbouring Stafford. The Heights name was used locally as a neighbourhood name from the 1950s, but it became a gazetted suburb in 1975. Stafford was a name adopted by local consent in 1885–1886, after Staffordshire in England.Stafford Heights State School opened on 3 April 1956.Somerset Hills State School opened on 24 January 1966.In 2002 Queen of Apostles Catholic Primary School opened its lower campus for younger students. Its original "upper" campus opened on 30 January 1962 in Stafford to the south.A small part of north-east Stafford Heights is part of Paramount Estate, a plan which involved naming the streets after the last names of actors at around the 1970s, but little evidence of this exists online. The majority of Paramount Estate lies in McDowall.