Dalby State High School occupies a 7.6-hour (27 ks) levelled site that is located approximately 600 metres (2,000 ft) northwest of the Dalby CBD.
The site is primarily accessed from Nicholson Street (southeast); and is bounded by the Warrego Highway (southwest), the Dalby-Glenmorgan railway line (northwest) and a light-industrial property (northeast).
The school retains a complex of six 1950s buildings (and part of a seventh), located in the southeast corner of the site and linked by covered walkways, with a playing field to the northeast and perimeter shade trees.

The buildings within the school complex which are heritage-listed are:
Block A (eastern end) - one 1953-4 Boulton & Paul prefabricated timber vocational building (formerly used as a domestic science building), and a section of a second Boulton & Paul prefabricated timber vocational building (1954-5, formerly used as a manual training building)
Block B (eastern end) - a 1953-4 Boulton and Paul prefabricated timber school building
Block C - a 1956-8 timber school building with timber floor trusses
Block D - a 1954-5 highset timber school building with semi-enclosed stair (formerly used as the intermediate school)
Block F - a 1958-9 (former) administration building and library
Block J - a 1958-9 brick veneer vocational building
Evidence of early site planning of the school grounds remains and is typical of Queensland schools during the 1950s, with the long, narrow, buildings linked by covered ways around open-ended courtyard play spaces.
Highset, timber-framed Blocks A (north), B (centre) and D (south) have north-facing verandahs and are arranged in a staggered, parallel formation, orientated slightly east of north, linked by an axis of highset covered walkways.
Adjacent, Block C is orientated slightly further east and is connected to the western end of Block D by a lowset entranceway.
Blocks J and F are single storey brick-veneer buildings; Block J to the northwest is at a right angle to Block C, and Block F is next to the main entrance and faces Nicholson Street.
Dalby State High School occupies a 7.6-hour (27 ks) levelled site that is located approximately 600 metres (2,000 ft) northwest of the Dalby CBD. The site is primarily accessed from Nicholson Street (southeast); and is bounded by the Warrego Highway (southwest), the Dalby-Glenmorgan railway line (northwest) and a light-industrial property (northeast). The school retains a complex of six 1950s buildings (and part of a seventh), located in the southeast corner of the site and linked by covered walkways, with a playing field to the northeast and perimeter shade trees.
The buildings within the school complex which are heritage-listed are:
Block A (eastern end) - one 1953-4 Boulton & Paul prefabricated timber vocational building (formerly used as a domestic science building), and a section of a second Boulton & Paul prefabricated timber vocational building (1954-5, formerly used as a manual training building)
Block B (eastern end) - a 1953-4 Boulton and Paul prefabricated timber school building
Block C - a 1956-8 timber school building with timber floor trusses
Block D - a 1954-5 highset timber school building with semi-enclosed stair (formerly used as the intermediate school)
Block F - a 1958-9 (former) administration building and library
Block J - a 1958-9 brick veneer vocational building
Evidence of early site planning of the school grounds remains and is typical of Queensland schools during the 1950s, with the long, narrow, buildings linked by covered ways around open-ended courtyard play spaces. Highset, timber-framed Blocks A (north), B (centre) and D (south) have north-facing verandahs and are arranged in a staggered, parallel formation, orientated slightly east of north, linked by an axis of highset covered walkways. Adjacent, Block C is orientated slightly further east and is connected to the western end of Block D by a lowset entranceway. Blocks J and F are single storey brick-veneer buildings; Block J to the northwest is at a right angle to Block C, and Block F is next to the main entrance and faces Nicholson Street.
Dalby State High School