Parkside, Queensland


Parkside is a suburb in the City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia.

History

St Joseph's Catholic Primary School was established by the Sisters of St Joseph in Railway Avenue in 1923 and operated there until 1984. In 1964, the Sisters established a secondary school for girls called San Jose Catholic Secondary School on Twenty-Third Avenue. Both schools closed as part of a rationalisation and amalgmation of Catholic schools in Mount Isa. On 29 January 1985, St Joseph's Catholic Primary School relocated to the San Jose site in Twenty-Third Avenue, while the San Jose College amalgamated with St Kieran's Christian Brothers College in Menzies to form the co-educational Mount Isa Catholic High School at the former St Kieran's site at Menzies.
Mount Isa State High School opened on 2 February 1953. It closed on 31 December 2002. In 2003 it amalgamated with Kalkadoon State High School to create Spinifex State College with two campuses, a junior campus at the former Mount Isa State High School and a senior campus at the former Kalkadoon State High School.
In the 2011 census, Parkside had a population of 1,784 people.

Heritage listings

Parkside has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
Spinifex State College is a government secondary school for boys and girls In 2017, the school had an enrolment of 817 students with 77 teachers and 71 non-teaching staff. The junior campus is at Fifth Avenue. It includes a special education program.
St Joseph's Catholic School is a Catholic primary school for boys and girls at 50 - 60 Twenty-Third Avenue. In 2017, the school had an enrolment of 313 students with 22 teachers and 18 non-teaching staff.