It was a Type 1 (open-air) school design, built to plans prepared by the Queensland Department of Public Works.

In the late 1860s and early 1870s the area was thrown open for selection, with Maryborough solicitor Edward Corser taking up the bulk of the Urangan township blocks, first surveyed in September 1867.

In November 1915, the township consisted of a station master's residence, boarding house, hotel, and several small stores.

The railway had been completed, opening up Urangan (or Port Maryborough as it was more officially known) as a seaside resort, and the jetty was under construction.

[1] Urangan Point residents petitioned the Department of Public Instruction in August 1915, for the establishment of state school in their community.

Corser offered to sell to the Department of Public Instruction a central Urangan site of about 2.5 acres, first taken up by his father in 1871, and transferred to himself in 1908.

They were comparatively inexpensive to construct, and were considered appropriate in areas unlikely to grow in population, or to transient mining or railway communities.

[1] In June 1928, the school committee requested a shelter shed or verandah be erected, as on wet days children had to stand in the rain until the arrival of the teacher.

[1] Block D of the Urangan Point State School is a single-room, single- storeyed timber building with concrete piers and a hipped corrugated iron roof.

A lean-to storage room on the western side is enclosed with horizontal timber battens and has a concrete floor.

Early timber shelving is located in the southwest corner, with the blackboard positioned centrally on the western wall.

[1] Block D of the Urangan Point State School was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 3 October 1994 having satisfied the following criteria.

Evidence of its early open-air form remains in the extant sliding sash windows which replaced the original canvas blinds in 1924.