[11] The unsatisfactory conditions were that a pool of water had accumulated under the school building due to the land being levelled during construction, and not sloped, to allow rainwater to escape, which the doctor stated that it "should never have been passed by the architect or engineer.

[11] By February of the very same year, the Minister for Public Instruction (the Education Department), Herbert Hardacre, visited the school to address the unsatisfactory conditions; after reading the reports made by the Works Department, and inspecting the property, he suggested that concrete should be laid instead of asphalt under the school,[12] despite previously quoting a report indicating that the water was running freely and the drainage was satisfactory.

[18] As of 2023, the boy had got the "most expensive royal independent investigation" into the harsh reality of people with a disability in order to change the public perception of them.

[19] It led to "32 public hearings, 1,785 private sessions, almost 8000 submissions, 28 research reports and about $600 million dollars" from the Disability Royal Commission.

[3][21] To meet the rarity criteria, the site should showcase aspects of the region's cultural heritage that is either rare, uncommon or endangered.

[3] It meets this criterion because the school has preserved and maintained its original rooftop bell tower from the early interwar period.