Mount Isa - Education

Education

Mount Isa has eight public primary schools and three private primary schools:

  • Happy Valley State School
  • Healy State School
  • Townview State School
  • Barkly Highway State School
  • Central State School
  • Sunset State School
  • Mount Isa School of Distance Education
  • Mount Isa Special School
  • St Kieren's (private)
  • St Josephs (private)

And three high schools:

  • Good Shepherd Catholic College (private)
  • Mount Isa School of Distance Education (to grade 10)
  • Spinifex State College - Three campuses, Junior from grade 8 to grade 10, Senior from grade 11 to grade 12, and Residential; for students who don't have a high-school in their region and need to leave their place of residence to access years 8-12.

The residential campus of Spinifex College is unique in the fact that it is the only State-run boarding-type school in Queensland and it caters to all the outlying towns and cattle-properties as far away as the gulf. Mount Isa is also home to the School of the Air, a unique-to-Australia way of schooling isolated students in Australia's vast lightly populated country areas. The city also holds the main campus of the Mount Isa Institute of TAFE, offering courses in a wide range of fields, including mining, agriculture and trades. In addition, James Cook University has a presence, with the Mount Isa Centre for Rural and Remote Health in the Base Hospital complex.

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