Mount Coot-tha Suburb Profile and Insights

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Mount Coot-tha occupies a distinctive position immediately west of Brisbane’s established urban area, where densely developed inner and middle-ring suburbs give way to a large forested mountain landscape. Although administratively recognised as a suburb, it does not function as a residential neighbourhood. There is no conventional market of detached houses, townhouses or apartments within Mount Coot-tha, and the normal property distinctions used for a Somners suburb profile therefore do not apply. The locality is instead defined by protected bushland, public recreation, botanical and educational institutions, tourism facilities, communications infrastructure and quarrying.

The physical landscape explains almost every aspect of the suburb. Mount Coot-tha forms part of the elevated terrain west of central Brisbane, rising above the surrounding urban area and creating one of the city’s most recognisable natural landmarks. The mountain’s slopes contain extensive eucalypt forest, gullies, creek lines, rocky ground and areas of denser vegetation, while higher ridges provide broad outlooks across the metropolitan area. This topography has limited conventional urban subdivision and helped preserve the mountain as a large continuous open-space area beside established suburbs.

Mount Coot-tha Reserve, also widely known as Mount Coot-tha Forest, is the dominant land use. Brisbane City Council describes it as the city’s largest natural area, and the wider reserve extends across more than 1,600 hectares. The scale of the forest is important because this is not simply a summit park or lookout surrounded by suburban streets. Large areas remain wooded and are traversed primarily by recreational tracks, management routes and roads serving the mountain rather than by residential street grids.

The forest contains a substantial network of walking and running routes. The Summit Track provides one of the best-known connections between J.C. Slaughter Falls and the upper mountain, while the Mahogany Trail provides another route towards the lookout through the forest. Simpson Falls, the Eugenia Circuit, Honeyeater Track and numerous connecting paths allow different sections of the reserve to be explored without concentrating all recreational activity around the summit.

J.C. Slaughter Falls is one of the principal lower-slope recreation areas. It combines picnic facilities with access to walking routes climbing towards the lookout and other parts of the forest. Simpson Falls provides another established picnic and trail environment, with water flow varying according to rainfall. These areas create a much more informal bushland experience than the landscaped botanic gardens or developed lookout precinct.

Mountain biking is another major use of the broader Mount Coot-tha reserve system. Council maintains trails of differing difficulty across the forest, including networks around Gap Creek and adjoining reserve areas. The terrain allows riders to move between relatively gentle recreational routes and substantially more technical trails while remaining close to Brisbane’s urban area. Walking, running, mountain biking and, on designated routes, horse riding give the forest a metropolitan recreation role considerably broader than that of an ordinary suburban park.

Picnic areas are distributed through the reserve rather than concentrated into one central destination. Facilities vary between locations, with selected areas providing picnic tables, shelters, barbecues, toilets, water and parking. This dispersed structure means visitors can use Mount Coot-tha as a short local recreation destination or spend much longer moving through the forest without necessarily visiting the summit.

The summit is the most visible developed part of the mountain. Mount Coot-tha Lookout occupies an elevated position with extensive views over Brisbane, the central business district and towards Moreton Bay. Its lookout facilities, café, visitor activity and road access create a distinctly different environment from the quieter forest tracks only a short distance away. The summit is used throughout the day and into the evening, giving Mount Coot-tha a visitor function that continues beyond normal park-use hours.

Sir Samuel Griffith Drive is central to this upper-mountain landscape. It winds through the forest and provides road access to the lookout, broadcasting facilities, trailheads, picnic locations and other parts of the reserve. The road also attracts recreational cyclists because of its sustained climb and elevated setting. Traffic conditions can consequently reflect a mixture of sightseeing vehicles, cyclists, service vehicles and people accessing recreational areas rather than the school, shopping and commuter movements typical of a residential suburb.

The mountain’s elevation also makes it strategically important for broadcasting. Multiple television and communications transmission facilities occupy sites along Sir Samuel Griffith Drive and the upper ridges. Their towers are visible from large parts of Brisbane and form a distinctive part of Mount Coot-tha’s skyline. These facilities use the height of the mountain to provide metropolitan transmission coverage and represent a significant infrastructure function within an otherwise predominantly natural landscape.

The eastern foot of the mountain changes character substantially again. Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot-tha occupies approximately 56 hectares and is Queensland’s principal subtropical botanic garden. Rather than retaining the largely natural forest structure of the reserve, the gardens contain curated botanical collections, landscaped lawns, water features, themed garden areas, paths, visitor buildings and educational facilities.

The gardens contain more than 200,000 plants and provide a metropolitan botanical, conservation and educational function. Visitors move through environments ranging from formal and thematic collections to areas designed around Australian and international plant communities. Walking here is substantially more structured and accessible than on many forest tracks, with wayfinding, visitor information, toilets, drinking water, picnic facilities and a café supporting longer visits.

Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium sits within the botanic gardens precinct and adds a major educational and cultural institution to the suburb. Its Cosmic Skydome, astronomy displays and associated programs serve general visitors, families and school groups from across Brisbane. The Planetarium is therefore better understood as a metropolitan institution located within Mount Coot-tha than as a neighbourhood amenity serving a local residential population.

The botanic gardens and Planetarium also create one of Mount Coot-tha’s main concentrations of built structures and visitor parking. This lower eastern precinct can be comparatively busy during popular visiting periods while much of the surrounding forest remains quiet. The contrast between carefully maintained botanical landscapes and the more natural eucalypt forest higher on the mountain is one of the locality’s strongest internal distinctions.

Mount Coot-tha Quarry introduces another very different land use. The quarry remains an operating Brisbane City Council facility and supplies aggregate used in the construction and maintenance of the city’s road network. Its excavated landscape, heavy operational function and restricted-access areas contrast sharply with the reserve, gardens and lookout, but quarrying has long formed part of the working landscape of Mount Coot-tha.

The quarry should not be confused with the public recreation reserve. It is infrastructure land rather than an attraction or neighbourhood commercial precinct, and its operational requirements are distinct from the surrounding visitor areas. At the same time, it demonstrates that Mount Coot-tha is not exclusively conservation land. The suburb combines protected forest and recreation with civic institutions and strategically important infrastructure.

There is no conventional retail centre within Mount Coot-tha. Food and visitor-oriented services are associated primarily with the lookout and botanic gardens rather than with a shopping strip or suburban centre. Supermarkets, professional services, medical facilities and other everyday needs are located in adjoining residential suburbs. This reflects the absence of a permanent residential community requiring a conventional local service economy.

The same distinction applies to education. Mount Coot-tha does not contain a normal residential school precinct. Educational activity instead centres on institutions such as the botanic gardens and Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium, which attract organised school visits and provide specialist environmental, botanical and astronomy learning rather than serving as local Prep-to-Year-12 neighbourhood schools.

Heritage and history are most useful here where they explain the present landscape. Mount Coot-tha Forest is heritage-listed, reflecting the long-standing public importance of the mountain as a recreation and conservation landscape. The lookout and road network likewise reflect Brisbane’s longstanding use of the mountain as a place for panoramic views, outdoor recreation and civic infrastructure. That history is visible today through the combination of forest, visitor structures, roads and public facilities rather than through historic residential streetscapes.

Natural conditions vary substantially across the locality. Elevation, slope, vegetation density, creek lines, drainage and bushland exposure change between the summit, lower gullies and forest edges. These characteristics are more relevant to the operation and management of Mount Coot-tha than the conventional questions of block size, housing orientation or redevelopment potential that would be examined in a residential suburb.

The forest also performs an important landscape function for neighbouring suburbs. Properties around The Gap, Bardon, Toowong, Chapel Hill, Kenmore Hills, Brookfield and other western Brisbane neighbourhoods can have very different relationships with Mount Coot-tha depending on position. Some adjoining streets gain forest outlooks or direct proximity to reserve access, while others sit closer to major approach roads or the developed eastern precinct. Those distinctions belong to the property markets of the surrounding suburbs rather than to Mount Coot-tha itself.

Planning considerations within Mount Coot-tha are therefore dominated by public open space, environmental protection, recreation, heritage, infrastructure and institutional uses. Large areas of apparently undeveloped land should not be interpreted as future residential development land. The absence of suburban street subdivision is a defining characteristic of the locality and is closely connected with its protected forest and metropolitan recreation role.

Mount Coot-tha is consequently best understood as one of Brisbane’s major pieces of metropolitan landscape infrastructure. The forest reserve provides large-scale conservation and recreation close to the city. The lookout gives Brisbane one of its principal panoramic viewpoints. The botanic gardens and Planetarium provide botanical, cultural and educational functions. Broadcast towers use the mountain’s elevation for metropolitan communications, while the quarry performs an established civic infrastructure role. Together these uses create a suburb that is significant to Brisbane precisely because it remains outside the conventional residential pattern surrounding it.

Lifestyle

Mount Coot-tha has no conventional residential lifestyle because it does not contain an established residential neighbourhood. Its day-to-day character instead comes from the thousands of people who use the mountain for walking, running, cycling, mountain biking, picnics, sightseeing, botanical recreation, education and access to Brisbane’s largest natural-area precinct. The pattern of activity changes markedly between the forest, summit and botanic gardens.

For walkers and runners, the forest is one of Mount Coot-tha’s strongest attractions. Tracks begin from several parts of the reserve and allow anything from shorter bush walks to connected routes climbing towards the summit. J.C. Slaughter Falls is an important starting point, particularly for the Summit Track and routes connecting into the wider trail system. Simpson Falls provides another popular forest destination, while longer circuits move through eucalypt woodland, gullies and more enclosed vegetation.

The experience is remarkably close to the established city despite feeling separated from suburban streets once inside the forest. Trail users can move through extensive bushland without travelling to the outer metropolitan fringe, which makes Mount Coot-tha especially important for regular exercise rather than only occasional sightseeing. Early-morning walkers, runners and cyclists give parts of the reserve an active recreation character well before the major visitor facilities become busy.

Cycling takes several forms. Road cyclists use Sir Samuel Griffith Drive for the sustained climb and descent around the mountain, while mountain bikers use designated forest trail networks. These are substantially different activities but both rely on the mountain’s topography. The combination makes Mount Coot-tha one of Brisbane’s most visible cycling landscapes as well as a major walking destination.

Picnicking creates a slower recreational rhythm. Nine picnic areas are distributed across the reserve, with facilities varying between locations. Open grass, shaded forest edges, tables, barbecue facilities and access to walking tracks allow families and groups to use the mountain without committing to a long bushwalk. J.C. Slaughter Falls and other established picnic areas are particularly useful starting points because recreation can extend naturally from a meal or gathering into a walk through the forest.

The summit operates differently. Mount Coot-tha Lookout is primarily about outlook and orientation to the wider city. From the upper mountain, visitors can see across Brisbane’s urban area towards the central business district and Moreton Bay, making the lookout a destination for residents and visitors from across the region rather than a facility serving one immediate neighbourhood.

The lookout remains active into the evening, when the city lights create a different experience from daytime views. Its café and visitor facilities allow people to stay at the summit without requiring a long walk, while tracks also connect the lookout with lower forest areas for those approaching on foot. The coexistence of road access and walking access makes the summit available to a broad range of visitors.

The Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot-tha provide a much more formal and landscaped outdoor experience at the base of the mountain. Paths move through major plant collections, themed gardens and open lawns rather than natural bush tracks. The gardens can support casual walks, picnics, horticultural interest, guided activities, photography and longer family visits within the same precinct.

The gardens are also easier to navigate for visitors who want a more structured environment. Visitor information, wayfinding, toilets, drinking water, picnic facilities, seating and a café distinguish the experience from much of the surrounding forest. Mobility information and accessible facilities further broaden the range of people able to use the precinct.

Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium adds an indoor educational destination to what might otherwise be considered an overwhelmingly outdoor suburb. Astronomy programs, exhibitions and the Cosmic Skydome allow a visit to combine scientific and cultural activity with the gardens and surrounding mountain landscape. School groups use the Planetarium and gardens for specialist educational experiences, while families can combine a show with walking, picnicking or visiting the lookout.

The forest and botanic gardens also have different expectations around pets and recreation. Dogs can be taken on designated reserve trails when kept on a leash, while the botanic gardens restrict ordinary pets in order to protect plant and wildlife collections. Cycling is similarly controlled within the formal garden environment even though it is a major activity throughout the surrounding mountain reserve.

Season and weather affect how Mount Coot-tha is used. After rainfall, gullies and seasonal falls can become more prominent, while hot conditions increase the value of shaded tracks and early-morning recreation. Clear days strengthen long-distance views from the summit, and the gardens change constantly with flowering cycles and plant growth. These variations are part of the mountain’s recreation character without altering its underlying land use.

The suburb has little of the routine associated with residential streets. There are no local school runs generated by a Mount Coot-tha residential population, no suburban supermarket trip and no neighbourhood strip where residents gather for daily errands. Activity instead arrives from surrounding Brisbane and disperses across trailheads, picnic areas, the gardens, Planetarium, lookout and roads through the forest.

This creates distinct zones of intensity. The botanic gardens and lookout can have concentrated visitor movement, particularly during popular recreation periods, while a forest track only a short distance away can feel comparatively secluded. Mountain biking areas create another active pocket, and operational infrastructure such as broadcasting sites and the quarry remains separate from ordinary visitor activity.

For people living in adjoining suburbs, Mount Coot-tha nevertheless acts almost like an enormous shared backyard for western Brisbane. Residents near reserve entrances can incorporate bushwalking, running or cycling into ordinary routines, while people from farther across the city commonly travel to the mountain specifically for recreation. Its value therefore extends well beyond the administrative suburb boundary.

Mount Coot-tha’s lifestyle identity is ultimately recreational rather than residential. A visit can involve a short walk through the botanic gardens, a demanding climb to the summit, a road cycling circuit, technical mountain biking, a picnic under established trees, astronomy at the Planetarium or simply an elevated view across Brisbane. The scale and diversity of these activities explain why the locality remains one of the city’s most heavily used natural and civic recreation environments despite having no conventional resident population.

Travel

Transport through Mount Coot-tha is shaped by the mountain’s steep terrain, forest reserve and concentration of visitor destinations rather than by residential commuting. The principal road approaches serve the botanic gardens, lookout, picnic areas, broadcasting infrastructure, quarry and trail network, while walking and cycling form an unusually important share of movement within the locality.

Mount Coot-tha Road provides the main eastern approach to the Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot-tha and Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium from the Toowong side of Brisbane. The gardens’ main entrance, visitor facilities and parking are concentrated in this lower part of the mountain, making it the most straightforward arrival point for visitors who do not intend to travel to the summit.

Sir Samuel Griffith Drive is the principal mountain road. It climbs through the forest and provides access to Mount Coot-tha Lookout as well as trailheads, picnic areas, broadcasting facilities and other parts of the upper reserve. The road’s winding alignment and elevation reflect the terrain, and travel conditions are very different from those of a conventional suburban arterial.

The lookout is directly accessible by road and provides free visitor parking. This allows the summit to function as a major sightseeing destination for people who cannot or do not want to walk up the mountain. Parking demand can increase during popular visiting periods because the summit attracts recreational visitors, tourists, cyclists and people using the café and lookout facilities.

The botanic gardens also have dedicated visitor parking, with additional parking available nearby. Parking and pedestrian movement are concentrated around the garden entrance, Planetarium and Visitor Information Centre rather than distributed along residential streets. Accessible parking is available within the precinct.

Public transport serves the developed eastern and summit precincts, with buses providing access to Mount Coot-tha destinations from the broader Brisbane network. Services are most useful for the botanic gardens and principal visitor areas rather than for moving between every forest trailhead. Visitors should therefore treat public transport access to the mountain differently from the dense stop pattern found in a residential suburb.

There is no railway station within Mount Coot-tha. Toowong railway station is the closest major rail access point to the botanic gardens side, but reaching the mountain from rail requires onward travel by bus, walking or another mode. The steep rise into the reserve makes the apparent map distance more significant for pedestrians than it would be across level inner-Brisbane streets.

Walking is a transport mode in its own right within Mount Coot-tha. The Summit Track and Mahogany Trail connect lower recreation areas with the upper mountain, while other tracks link picnic grounds, gullies and forest areas. Visitors can therefore reach the lookout on foot without using Sir Samuel Griffith Drive for the entire journey.

Walking access is strongest for recreation rather than point-to-point commuting. Track surfaces, stairs, gradients and weather exposure vary substantially, and routes that appear short geographically can involve sustained climbing. The Summit Track from J.C. Slaughter Falls is a clear example of how the mountain’s elevation changes the practical effort required to move between destinations.

Cycling access is similarly divided between road and off-road networks. Road cyclists climb Sir Samuel Griffith Drive and use connections from surrounding western Brisbane, while mountain bikers travel to designated trail networks and reserve access points. The botanic gardens have more restricted cycling arrangements because they function as a curated pedestrian-oriented landscape rather than general forest reserve.

The Western Freeway Bikeway and connections towards the Bicentennial Bikeway provide useful approaches to the botanic gardens side from Brisbane’s broader cycling network. This allows experienced riders to reach Mount Coot-tha from the inner city without relying entirely on general traffic roads. Once on the mountain, route choice becomes more strongly influenced by gradient and trail designation.

Different recreational areas have their own parking and access patterns. J.C. Slaughter Falls, Simpson Falls and other picnic areas provide road access closer to walking tracks, reducing the need to begin every forest visit from the botanic gardens or summit. This dispersed access is important because Mount Coot-tha Reserve covers a much larger area than the developed visitor precinct at its eastern base.

The quarry and broadcasting sites generate specialised vehicle movements that are separate from normal visitor travel. Broadcast facilities occupy elevated sites accessed from the mountain road network, while quarry operations involve service and heavy-vehicle movements associated with an infrastructure facility rather than public recreation. These restricted or operational destinations should not be treated as general visitor areas.

There is no conventional local street network because Mount Coot-tha has no residential neighbourhood requiring internal access between houses, schools and shops. Roads penetrate the reserve to reach particular civic, recreational and infrastructure destinations, while large parts of the suburb remain accessible primarily by trail or management route.

For neighbouring suburbs, the mountain also acts as a geographic barrier. Travel between some western and inner-western areas follows roads around the reserve rather than crossing directly through it, while Sir Samuel Griffith Drive serves the mountain itself rather than operating as a simple cross-suburban shortcut. The extent of protected forest helps preserve this distinction.

Mount Coot-tha is therefore highly accessible for a major natural area close to central Brisbane, but accessibility varies according to destination. The botanic gardens and Planetarium have straightforward road, bus and cycling access from the eastern side. The lookout is accessible by road, bus, bicycle or walking track. Picnic and trail destinations are spread around the forest and can be more vehicle-dependent, while experienced walkers and cyclists use the reserve itself as part of the journey. Topography remains the central factor shaping how people move through the suburb.

Schools & Amenities

Mount Coot-tha does not contain a conventional residential school or neighbourhood-services environment. With no established residential property market, the suburb has no need for the usual combination of local primary and secondary schools, supermarkets, suburban medical centres and everyday retail found in surrounding Brisbane neighbourhoods. For this locality, the most useful interpretation of amenities is therefore its collection of metropolitan recreation, educational, cultural and visitor facilities.

Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot-tha is one of the suburb’s principal institutions and covers approximately 56 hectares at the eastern base of the mountain. The gardens contain extensive subtropical plant collections, themed landscapes, lawns, pathways and visitor facilities and are used for recreation, horticultural education, guided activities, events and school visits.

A Visitor Information Centre at the gardens assists with maps, trails and information about the wider Mount Coot-tha precinct. The garden environment also provides toilets, drinking water, picnic spaces, seating, parking and café facilities, giving it the most comprehensive concentration of public visitor amenities within the suburb.

Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium is located within the botanic gardens precinct. Its Cosmic Skydome provides immersive astronomy presentations, while exhibition and display areas support broader astronomy and science education. Programs for school groups make the Planetarium a significant educational facility even though Mount Coot-tha itself does not contain conventional neighbourhood schools.

Mount Coot-tha Lookout is the suburb’s best-known sightseeing facility. The elevated lookout provides extensive views over Brisbane and towards Moreton Bay and is accessible during both daytime and evening. A café and gift shop support visitors at the summit, while nearby walking connections allow the lookout to be incorporated into longer forest recreation.

Mount Coot-tha Reserve provides the largest recreational amenity. More than 1,600 hectares of forest support walking, running, cycling and other designated recreational activities. The trail network ranges from shorter walks to longer and steeper routes, allowing the reserve to serve both casual visitors and people using the mountain regularly for exercise.

J.C. Slaughter Falls is one of the principal picnic and walking areas and provides access to tracks climbing towards the summit. Simpson Falls provides another established recreation setting, while other picnic areas are distributed through the forest. Across the reserve, selected sites provide combinations of shelters, picnic tables, barbecues, toilets, water and parking.

The Summit Track is one of the most prominent walking connections, linking the J.C. Slaughter Falls area with the upper mountain. The Mahogany Trail provides another substantial route towards the lookout, while tracks such as the Simpson Falls Track, Eugenia Circuit and Honeyeater Track broaden the range of terrain and walking conditions available.

Mountain biking is a major part of the Mount Coot-tha recreation network. Designated trails across the broader reserve system provide options for differing skill levels, including technical riding that is distinct from ordinary shared suburban cycling paths. Trail designation and difficulty should be checked before riding because not every walking route is intended for the same recreation use.

Road cycling is also strongly associated with Mount Coot-tha. Sir Samuel Griffith Drive provides a sustained climb through the forest to the upper mountain and is widely used as a recreational cycling route. This creates an amenity based on the road and landscape itself rather than a purpose-built sporting complex.

The forest provides environmental amenity beyond organised recreation. Extensive native vegetation, gullies, seasonal waterfalls and wildlife habitat create a natural setting within a short distance of established western Brisbane suburbs. The scale of this protected landscape makes Mount Coot-tha important for conservation as well as public access.

The botanic gardens provide a complementary form of environmental amenity. Rather than natural forest, visitors encounter managed botanical collections representing Australian and international plant communities. The distinction allows Mount Coot-tha to support both bushland conservation and formal botanical education within the same locality.

Public event and group facilities are available in parts of the gardens and reserve, with selected spaces able to be booked for organised activities. The Planetarium also provides venue functions in addition to ordinary public programs. These uses reinforce Mount Coot-tha’s role as a citywide destination rather than a neighbourhood facility precinct.

Food and refreshments are available at the developed visitor areas, particularly the lookout and botanic gardens, but Mount Coot-tha does not contain a conventional shopping centre or retail strip. Everyday supermarket shopping, pharmacies, banking, professional services and broader dining are provided in surrounding residential suburbs rather than within the mountain locality.

Healthcare follows the same pattern. There is no conventional Mount Coot-tha medical precinct serving a local resident population. Hospitals, general practitioners, allied-health services and pharmacies are accessed in the surrounding western and inner-western suburbs and the wider Brisbane health network.

Broadcasting infrastructure is another important facility category even though it is not a public amenity. Multiple television and communications transmission sites occupy elevated positions along Sir Samuel Griffith Drive. Their towers form a prominent part of the skyline and use the mountain’s elevation to support metropolitan broadcasting coverage.

Mount Coot-tha Quarry is similarly an important non-public facility. The operating quarry supplies aggregate used in Brisbane’s road network and represents a major civic infrastructure use within the suburb. Access is operational rather than recreational, distinguishing it clearly from the neighbouring forest and visitor precincts.

Mount Coot-tha’s amenity structure is therefore metropolitan rather than residential. The botanic gardens and Planetarium provide botanical, scientific and educational experiences. The lookout provides one of Brisbane’s principal panoramic destinations. The forest provides extensive walking, running, cycling and picnic opportunities, while specialised broadcasting and quarry infrastructure perform important citywide functions. Conventional schools, shopping and health services sit outside the suburb because Mount Coot-tha itself is a non-residential landscape rather than a conventional neighbourhood.

Local Schools

Stuartholme School (Toowong)
Distance: 1.02 km
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Sector: Non-State (Catholic)
Years: Year 5 – Year 12
Students: 738
365 Birdwood Terrace, Toowong
Phone: (07) 3369 5466
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Queensland Academy for Science Mathematics and Technology
Distance: 1.55 km
State High School
Sector: State
Years: Year 7 – Year 12
Students: 1,358
78 Bywong Street, Toowong
Phone: (07) 3377 9333
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Bardon State School
Distance: 1.94 km
State School
Sector: State
Years: Prep Year – Year 6
Students: 254
330 Simpsons Road, Bardon
Phone: (07) 3511 4555
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Rainworth State School
Distance: 2.08 km
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Sector: State
Years: Prep Year – Year 6
Students: 590
185 Boundary Road, Bardon
Phone: (07) 3514 9444
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St Ignatius School (Toowong)
Distance: 2.12 km
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Sector: Non-State (Catholic)
Years: Prep Year – Year 6
Students: 277
46 Grove Street, Toowong
Phone: (07) 3371 1094
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Toowong State School
Distance: 2.24 km
State School
Sector: State
Years: Prep Year – Year 6
Students: 463
37 St Osyth Street, Toowong
Phone: (07) 3859 6111
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Brisbane Boys' College (Toowong)
Distance: 2.31 km
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Sector: Non-State (Independent)
Years: Prep Year – Year 12
Students: 1,389
Kensington Terrace, Toowong
Phone: (07) 3309 3500
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St Joseph's School (Bardon)
Distance: 2.34 km
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Sector: Non-State (Catholic)
Years: Prep Year – Year 6
Students: 385
41 The Drive, Bardon
Phone: (07) 3369 3020
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Omni Academies of Learning
Distance: 2.56 km
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Sector: Non-State (Independent)
Years: Year 7 – Year 9
19 Lissner Street, Toowong
Phone: 0477 851 385
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Indooroopilly State School
Distance: 2.63 km
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Years: Prep Year – Year 6
Students: 1,326
Cnr Moggill Road & Russell Terrace, Indooroopilly
Phone: (07) 3327 2333
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Holy Family Primary School (Indooroopilly)
Distance: 2.87 km
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Years: Prep Year – Year 6
Students: 148
37 Ward Street, Indooroopilly
Phone: (07) 3870 9600
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Brigidine College (Indooroopilly)
Distance: 2.94 km
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Sector: Non-State (Catholic)
Years: Year 5 – Year 12
Students: 920
53 Ward Street, Indooroopilly
Phone: (07) 3870 7225
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