Centenary Heights is a suburb of Toowoomba, Queensland

Queensland

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, Australia

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, located 4 kilometres (2 mi) from the central business district.

Previously part of Middle Ridge

Middle Ridge, Queensland

Middle Ridge is a suburb of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, located from the city centre.Middle Ridge was named in the 1860s, as the area between East and West Creeks where the teamsters who camped at Toowoomba turned their teams loose to graze....

, the area was named Centenary Heights in 1960 in honour of the separation of Queensland from New South Wales in 1859.

The suburb contains two public schools and two private schools: Centenary Heights State High School (1968), Gabbinbar State School (1972); St Thomas More's Primary School (Catholic, 1961) and Martin Luther Primary School (Lutheran, 1977).