The buildings are: which are connected by covered walkways and set in landscaped grounds with retaining walls, stairs and garden beds, and play and sporting areas.

[2][3][4][1] In 1884, the Yeppoon Sugar Company commenced operations, with a large mill at Farnborough and 2000 acres (809.37ha) of land worked by South Sea Islanders.

Schools became a community focus, a symbol of progress, and a source of pride, with enduring connections formed with past pupils, parents, and teachers.

In August 1922, a hospital opened in Yeppoon and three boarding schools commenced in town between 1917 and 1940, serving the educational needs of Central Queensland.

[14][15][1] Due to this development, student numbers at Yeppoon State School continued to increase, requiring further accommodation.

This reflected the enormous demand for state education between the late 1940s and the 1960s, which resulted from immigration and the unprecedented national population growth now termed the "baby boom".

[17] For Yeppoon State School, the Department of Public Instruction responded by acquiring a 42-acre (17 ha) site in 1950, for future development.

In 1956, construction of two buildings (known as Blocks D and E) on the Tucker Street site commenced, with an estimated cost of £26,014, rising to £29,038 in the following year.

[23][24][25][26] These buildings were joined at their east ends by covered walkways and a timber administration wing comprising two staff rooms.

[32] Block E comprised five classrooms with a store, a head teachers room at its east end, and a north-facing verandah.

[36] In keeping with the Queensland Government's continued focus on vocational education during the 1950s and 1960s,[37] a building that was a lowset variation of the highset timber school building with timber floor trusses standard type, used for domestic science (Block C), was erected in 1959 and featured clerestory lighting over its verandah wall and two classrooms with a small staff room and a fitting room.

[39] On 4 September 1962, the Yeppoon Secondary Department was officially opened by Vince Jones, Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Callide.

[1] The siting of the buildings on the new Yeppoon State School campus reflected master planning concepts developed by DPW architects in the 1950s.

The early and continuing commitment to play-based education, particularly in primary school, resulted in the provision of outdoor play space and sporting facilities, such as ovals and tennis courts.

A federally-funded school hall and resource centre (library) was officially opened in 2010 as part of the Building the Education Revolution program.

In 2018, the grounds comprised 10.9 hectares (27 acres) featuring an environmental studies area, two sporting fields, a swimming pool and a basketball court.

The school features a complex of teaching and administration buildings, connected by covered walkways and located at the highest part (northeast corner) of the site.

Sloping down toward the southern playing field, terraces defined by retaining walls form platforms on which buildings and courtyards stand.

The buildings are in a north-facing alignment, arranged in a splayed formation with a central administration wing (now used for classrooms), and linked by a spine of covered walkways around courtyard spaces.

It is a single storey teaching building with a ground level, north-facing verandah providing access to two southern classrooms.

[1] The understorey retains its original open play space, seating, bracing walls, enclosures for toilets, and former medical room.

They generally have a bitumen surface; and their open nature enables the significant buildings to have a direct visual relationship to, from and between each other.

[1] The school grounds are well-established, and incorporate open space around the significant buildings, which facilitates natural light and ventilation of the interiors.

[1] Concrete-edged and walled garden beds (1957–59) are formed between Blocks A and B, and are incorporated in the retaining wall to the north of Block E.[1] A large playing field (1963), featuring a cricket pitch, is located at the south end of the site and is defined on the north and west sides by a formed earth bank.

[1] The layout of the administration and classroom blocks, the covered links between them and associated open spaces, demonstrate the mid-1950s introduction of organic master planning at state schools, which responded to the existing contours of the site and provided for ordered growth from a nucleus.

[1] The 1950s buildings at Yeppoon State School demonstrate the evolution of Department of Public Works (DPW) designs during this period.

These include its: site planning; range of highset and lowset timber-framed buildings of standard designs that incorporate understorey play areas, verandahs and classrooms with high levels of natural light and ventilation; and a generous, landscaped site with garden beds, retaining walls, stairs, and assembly, play and sports areas.

The collection of buildings (Blocks A, B, C, D, E and F, and administration wing (former)) at Yeppoon State School contribute to the concept of long, narrow buildings, arranged in a splayed, north-facing formation with a central administration wing, and a spine of covered walkways linked around open-ended courtyard assembly and play spaces.

Yeppoon State School has a strong and ongoing association with past and present pupils, parents, staff members, and the surrounding community through sustained use since its establishment in 1885.

The place is important for its contribution to the educational development of Yeppoon, with generations of children taught at the school, and has served as a prominent venue for social interaction and community focus.