Editing Mount Isa (section)

== Education ==
[[File:StateLibQld 1 109596 In the schoolyard of the Mount Isa State School, 1929.jpg|thumb|Mount Isa State School, 1929]]
Mount Isa has eight public primary schools and three private primary schools:
* Happy Valley State School<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-03-16 |title=Happy Valley State School |url=https://happyvalleyss.eq.edu.au/ |access-date=2022-06-17 |website=Happy Valley State School |language=en |archive-date=14 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210814014125/https://happyvalleyss.eq.edu.au/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* Healy State School<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-02-07 |title=Healy State School |url=https://healyss.eq.edu.au/ |access-date=2022-06-17 |website=Healy State School |language=en |archive-date=15 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220415065146/https://healyss.eq.edu.au/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* Townview State School<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-03-11 |title=Townview State School |url=https://townviewss.eq.edu.au/ |access-date=2022-06-17 |website=Townview State School |language=en |archive-date=8 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210408020159/https://townviewss.eq.edu.au/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* Barkly Highway State School<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-12-17 |title=Barkly Highway State School |url=https://barklyhighwayss.eq.edu.au/ |access-date=2022-06-17 |website=Barkly Highway State School |language=en |archive-date=9 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230409151516/https://barklyhighwayss.eq.edu.au/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Central State School]]
* Sunset State School<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-03-10 |title=Sunset State School |url=https://sunsetss.eq.edu.au/ |access-date=2022-06-17 |website=Sunset State School |language=en |archive-date=27 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200327093048/https://sunsetss.eq.edu.au/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  Mount Isa School of the Air<ref name="mountisasde.eq.edu.au">{{Cite web |date=2019-05-12 |title=Mount Isa School of the Air |url=https://mtisasde.eq.edu.au/ |access-date=2022-06-17 |website=Mount Isa School of the Air |language=en |archive-date=10 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210610094225/https://mtisasde.eq.edu.au/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* Mount Isa Special School<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-02-11 |title=Mount Isa Special School |url=https://mtisaspecs.eq.edu.au/ |access-date=2022-06-17 |website=Mount Isa Special School |language=en |archive-date=9 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309213809/https://mtisaspecs.eq.edu.au/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* St Kieren's (private)
* St Josephs (private)
 
And four high schools:
* Good Shepherd Catholic College (private)
* Mt Isa Flexible Learning Centre (private)
* Mount Isa School of the Air (to grade 10)<ref name="mountisasde.eq.edu.au"/>
* [[Spinifex State College]] – Three campuses, Junior from grade 7 to grade 9, Senior from grade 10 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 7–12. Spinifex State College opened on 1 January 2003.  The Junior campus is located at the former Mount Isa State High School.  The Senior campus is located at the former Kalkadoon State High School.  The Mount Isa Education and Training Precinct campus is an amalgamation of Kalkadoon State High School and Mount Isa State High School to form Spinifex State College Precinct.<ref>{{Cite QldSchool|access-date=18 April 2019}}</ref>
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.