It established a Board of General Education and provided for a system of government-subsidised primary schools, similar to that in New South Wales.

Under the Queensland Act, communities were required to contribute one-third of the cost of construction of new school buildings.

In August, three lots of land on the corner of Guy and Percy Streets were purchased from George Clark of East Talgai for £150.

The firm of Suter and Voysey submitted plans to the Board of Education on 20 September 1873 at a proposed cost of £1800.

From the end of 1868 until 1875, Suter undertook almost all of the Board's work, which involved approximately 30 National Schools.

[1] Architect Richard Gailey, reporting to the Board of Education on 12 November 1875 criticised the design for its poor lighting and ventilation and commented on the ill fit of the windows.

While the annexe did relieve some of the over crowding its open nature was a cause of some concern with numerous reports to the Department of Education on it deficiencies as a classroom.

[1] In 1929 Bert Mitchell planted a Bunya pine seedling at the front of the building in honour of this son, Walter who attended the school as a 5 year old.

[1] The former West Warwick School is set in well kept gardens with the main entrance facing Guy Street.

[1] The original school is a single story building, T-shaped in plan and constructed from brown sandstone blocks.

A similar arrangement of vent and lancet windows is found at the western gabled end of the building.

The eastern elevation has five large square windows to both northern and southern wings on either side of the projecting gabled entry porch.

The Library is open planned and the rooms in the western wing retain the original spaces though the dividing walls have been removed, presumably when the single sex schools amalgamated.

[1] Warwick Central State School was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 6 February 2006 having satisfied the following criteria.

[1] The place demonstrates rare, uncommon or endangered aspects of Queensland's cultural heritage.

The building demonstrates the principal characteristics of early schools such as the provision of large classrooms for teaching by the Lancastrian system and in its gender division, separating class and play areas for girls and boys.

The Warwick Central State School has aesthetic value as an early example of Gothic revival school architecture and as a prominently sited building, pleasing in form and material, makes an important contribution to the character of Guy Street.

[1] The place has a special association with the life or work of a particular person, group or organisation of importance in Queensland's history.