[9] Mount Isa School of the Air opened on 22 June 1964.

[7][10] Mount Isa Special School opened on 29 January 1973.

[7] St Kieran's Christian Brothers College opened on 25 January 1960 in Menzies with an initial enrolment of 132 boys in Years 4 to 7 with Brother Tom Higgins as the first principal.

Increasing enrolments put pressure on the classroom space and in 1970 the school ceased to offer Year 4 (as that was available at St Joseph's Catholic Primary School at Parkside).

[17] It provides distance education to students living in remote outback locations extending north to the Gulf of Carpentaria, south to Birdsville, east to Richmond and west to the Northern Territory.

[19] Spinifex State College is a government secondary (7-12) school for boys and girls [20][21] In 2017, the school had an enrolment of 817 students with 77 teachers and 71 non-teaching staff (58 full-time equivalent).