Healy is a suburb of

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in the

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, Australia. In the , Healy had a population of 1,878 people.

Geography

The

Leichhardt River The Leichhardt River is a river in north west Queensland, Australia. Course The source of the river is in the Selwyn Range under Rifle Creek Hill and fed by Rifle Creek approximately south of the mining town Mount Isa. It runs in a generally n ...

flows north–south through the town of Mount Isa, dividing the suburbs of the town into "mineside" (west of the Leichhardt River) and "townside" (east of the Leichhardt River). Healy is a "townside" suburb.

History

On 1 September 1973 the suburb was named after Edward Kevin Emmett Healy, Under Secretary in the Queensland Department of Mines. Healy State School opened on 24 January 1972. In the , Healy had a population of 1,878 people.

Education

Healy State School is a government primary (Prep-6) school for boys and girls at 5-9 Thomson Road (). In 2016 the school had an enrolment of 163 students (83 of whom identify as Indigenous) with 12 teachers (11 full-time equivalent) and 13 non-teaching staff (10 full-time equivalent). In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 152 students with 12 teachers (11 full-time equivalent) and 11 non-teaching staff (9 full-time equivalent). There is no secondary school in Healy. The nearest government secondary school is Spinifex State College which has its junior campus in neighbouring Parkside to the north-west and its senior campus in

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to the north-east. However, Spinifex State College does have its residential facility (boarding school) at 83-85 Transmission Street in Healy ().

References

External links

* {{City of Mount Isa