East Toowoomba is a suburb of Toowoomba, Queensland

Queensland

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, Australia

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, located 2 kilometres (1 mi) from the central business district.

Education

The suburb contains the main Bridge Street campus of Southern Queensland Institute of TAFE

Southern Queensland Institute of TAFE

Southern Queensland Institute of TAFE Southern Queensland Institute of TAFE Southern Queensland Institute of TAFE (SQIT]] is an Australian vocational college for teaching Tertiary and Further Education. It covers a wide area, with campuses in Toowoomba, Roma, Warwick, Kingaroy, Dalby, Chinchilla,...

, and two elite independent schools, Toowoomba Grammar School

Toowoomba Grammar School

Toowoomba Grammar School is an independent, non-denominational, day and boarding grammar school for boys, in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia....

 (boys) and Fairholme College

Fairholme College

Fairholme College is an independent, day and boarding school for girls, located in Toowoomba, one of Australia's largest provincial cities, in South East Queensland, Australia....

 (girls).

In addition, the suburb contains Toowoomba East State School (1887) and Mater Dei Primary School (Catholic, 1917).

Toowoomba East State School is Toowoomba's largest primary school with 950 students attending.

Facilities

• Clive Berghofer Stadium, previously known as Athletic Oval and named for former Toowoomba mayor Clive Berghofer
  Clive Berghofer
  Clive John Berghofer is an Australian property developer, politician and philanthropist.Berghofer was an alderman on Toowoomba City Council from 1973 to 1982, serving as Toowoomba's 61st Mayor from 1982 to 1992. He was National Party MLA for Toowoomba South...
  
   (1982–1992), and primarily used for rugby league
  Rugby league
  Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...
  
  games;
• St Vincent's Hospital, a private hospital established in 1922 by the Sisters of Charity;
• Botanical Gardens and Queens Park, a heritage-listed reserve established in 1869.