[1][2] It is administered by the Queensland Department of Education, with an enrolment of 822 students and a teaching staff of 74, as of 2023.

"[4] In 2009, Brendan O’Connor, the Minister for Employment Participation, provided the school $98,000 to introduce a program "to engage Indigenous students in far north Queensland in science.

"[5] The schools four sporting houses (Trojan, Gemini, Pindar & Apollo) are named after types of sugar cane, as a reminder of the history of the land.

The Woree State High School community is very multicultural, with many different cultural backgrounds.

Additionally, as part of Stage II of the Cairns Regional Gallery Mural Project,[6] in 1996, an indigenous mural was added to the basketball stadium, which the artists wanted "to provide works indigenous pupils at the school could relate to and be proud of".