There is also a Student Representative Council which has input into the running of the Centre, reviews school rules and discusses appropriate punishments for breaches of discipline. All students attend the Centre because they want to be there. All are over the minimum school leaving age of fifteen years. They can, if they wish, leave the Centre at any time. As a consequence, Mr Hooper reports that the school does not have attendance problems.
Students attend class every day.
33.1.110 Class sizes at Wangetti are small, averaging from six to fifteen students. In 1989, one of the six teachers was of Aboriginal and Tones Strait Islander descent and one of the two sets of house parents were an Aboriginal couple. Mr Hooper reported that his attempts to employ more Aboriginal teachers, by writing to Aboriginal teacher graduates asking them if they were interested in a position at the Centre, have not proved successful. Attempts to attract Aboriginal Teacher Aides have also been unsuccessful and attributed by some of the staff to the physical isolation of the Centre. Wangetti is 42 km north of Cairns and 35 km south of Mossman.