[1] The Central State School at Mount Morgan was opened in 1887 with an enrolment of 58 pupils, but this number rapidly grew and the first extension was begun the following year.

The government provided a teacher and books, but expected communities with more than 30 potential pupils to put up a third of the school costs.

On 5 May 1885 a public meeting was held in Mount Morgan to discuss obtaining a school for the town.

Fundraising began and the General Manager of the Gold Mining Company, Wesley Hall, made a major contribution to the money raised.

In 1946 a building was moved to the site from the closed school at Walter Hall, a suburb of Mount Morgan.

[1] Alterations were made to the 1887 A Block in late 1996-7 to provide better administration facilities and the refurbished building was officially opened on 29 July 1997.

[1] The main structures comprising the school are timber buildings with gabled, corrugated iron clad roofs, elevated on stumps of varying heights to accommodate the slope of the site.

It has pairs of ornate turned brackets under the eaves at the ends of the building and the verandahs are ceiled with boards set diagonally.

The west wall has a large panel of windows which are supplemented by banks of glass louvres down both long sides of the building.

It also has single skin timber walls and a corrugated iron clad gabled roof which extends over verandahs to the east and west.

Block G, built in 1994, is single storey structure with a metal roof and is sympathetic to the older buildings in form, scale and detail.

[1] There is a timber pergola gateway, very domestic in form, over the entry from Central Street and situated behind later concrete fence posts.

[1] Central State School was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992 having satisfied the following criteria.

The Central School is important for its connection with the community in and around Mount Morgan as a provider of public education for several generations.