Two students have allegedly been stabbed in two days at Adelaide high schools.

Key points:

  • A 16-year-old boy is accused of stabbing an 18-year-old student at Avenues College
  • A 13-year-old boy has been charged with an assault at Adelaide Botanic High School 
  • Both incidents involved scissors

A 16-year-old boy was arrested this afternoon after he allegedly stabbed an 18-year-old female student in her torso at Avenues College, in Windsor Gardens, in Adelaide’s north-eastern suburbs. 

Police were called to the scene just after 3:30pm. 

They said the boy used a box cutter and scissors in the stabbing.

He is being interviewed by detectives.

The victim has been taken to the Royal Adelaide Hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, including cuts to her abdomen, lower left leg and throat.

Police believe both are students at the college, which was created in 2019 as a merger of Windsor Gardens Secondary College, Gilles Plains Primary School and Gilles Plains Children’s Centre. 

Second stabbing yesterday

A 13-year-old has appeared in the Youth Court today charged with stabbing another student at Adelaide Botanic High School yesterday.

Police say the North Adelaide boy used scissors to stab the student at the school on Frome Road, in Adelaide’s CBD, at about 4:45pm.

Adelaide Botanic High School opened in 2019 as the second public high school in Adelaide’s CBD.(

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The alleged victim received minor injuries that were treated by the school.

The accused student was charged with aggravated assault, common assault and carrying an offensive weapon.

He was refused bail overnight but was granted bail when he appeared in court today.

He did not enter a plea.

His next hearing will be in September.

Adelaide Botanic High School opened in 2019, becoming the CBD’s second public high school.

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