Lowood State School is situated in the small town of Lowood, thirty-five kilometres from Ipswich in the Brisbane Valley. Our school provides a comprehensive education for all children from Prep (5 years) to Year 7 (12 years) and takes great pride in the many programs, especially the Kitchen Garden Program, School Wide Positive Behaviour Program, a School Chaplain and IDEAS, which are an integral part of and support our school's curriculum. Our school has a Special Education Program to support students with disabilities and an Early Childhood Developmental Program to support pre-compulsory education of children with disabilities. We are very proud of our school and the special contribution it has made to the education of children in the town of Lowood and district for over 125 years. Students attending the school come from a mixture of backgrounds including mixed farming, hobby farms, rural and urban residential, as well as a mixture of socio-economic backgrounds. Enrolments are increasing after a slow decline in recent years as a number of new land developments and subdivisions in the school's catchment area come on-line.