96 schools listed in Toowoomba. average academic score 48/100.
Toowoomba sits at the top of the Great Dividing Range and serves as the education centre for the Darling Downs and inland southern Queensland. The city has an unusually strong independent boarding school tradition: Toowoomba Grammar School, Fairholme College, The Glennie School, Concordia Lutheran College and St Ursula's College all draw boarding students from pastoral and mining families across western Queensland.
The Catholic sector is equally well established. St Joseph's College in Rangeville is the city's top-performing Catholic secondary, with St Saviour's College, St Ursula's College, Downlands College and St Mary's College providing a breadth of Catholic options unusual for a city of Toowoomba's size. Government secondaries include Toowoomba State High School, Harristown State High School and Centenary Heights State High School, with Centenary Heights the strongest government academic performer.
The boarding school concentration gives Toowoomba a profile that punches well above its population of around 170,000. Students board from as far as the Channel Country, western NSW and the Bowen Basin mining towns. NAPLAN results for the city's independent and Catholic schools sit above Queensland state averages, while the government sector tracks closer to the state median. Highfields, north of the city, is Toowoomba's fastest-growing suburb and its primary school is among the better-performing government options in the region.