Boompa, Queensland

Teebar East Provisional School opened on 29 May 1893. In 1904, the school was moved and renamed Teebar West Provisional School. On 1 January 1909, it became Teebar West State School. In 1930, the school was again moved to a more central position and in March 1933 was renamed Boompa State School. The school closed on 16 April 1945, but reopened on 25 March 1946. It closed permanently on 28 January 1963.{{Citation |author1=Queensland Family History Society |title=Queensland schools past and present |publication-date=2010 |edition=Version 1.01 |publisher=Queensland Family History Society |isbn=978-1-921171-26-0}}{{Cite QSA Agency|6154|Boompa State School|30 January 2024

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In 1922, the residents of the Woocoo Shire erected a war memorial outside St Mary's Church of England on the Maryborough-Biggenden Road at Teebar (now within Boompa). In 1992, the memorial was relocated to the Woocoo Historical Museum in Brooweena due to concerns about vandalism.{{cite QHR|15744|Brooweena War Memorial|600969|accessdate=3 April 2014}}{{cite web |title=Brooweena War Memorial (Digger) |url=http://www.qldwarmemorials.com.au/Pages/MemoDet.aspx?Memorial=Brooweena%20War%20Memorial%20(Digger) |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407093645/http://www.qldwarmemorials.com.au/Pages/MemoDet.aspx?Memorial=Brooweena%20War%20Memorial%20(Digger) |archive-date=7 April 2014 |access-date=3 April 2014 |publisher=Queensland War Memorial Register}} It is now known as the Brooweena War Memorial.

Elizabeth Mary Thomas nee Eaton, formerly Mrs B J Nichols, donated land from the property Clifton for a church and cemetery. Subscription towards the building fund were made on the understanding that the church was dedicated in the name of St Mary to the memory of Woocoo Shire soldiers killed in action in World War I.{{cite news |date=20 May 1918 |title=WOOCOO FALLEN SOLDIERS MEMORIAL. |page=3 |newspaper=Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser |issue=14,037 |location=Queensland, Australia |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article151093295 |accessdate=23 January 2023 |via=National Library of Australia}} Opening services of the St Mary's Anglican Church were held on 26 October 1919.{{cite news |date=25 October 1919 |title=TEEBAR. |page=7 |newspaper=Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser |issue=14,282 |location=Queensland, Australia |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article152602501 |accessdate=23 January 2023 |via=National Library of Australia}} The church was built by Matthew Edmund Rooney of Maryborough. There is a group of three stained glass windows behind the altar. In 2019 residents and descendants of past residents attended a 100th anniversary service, and a plaque to commemorate the occasion was unveiled in the church grounds.{{Cite web |last=Murree |first=Erica |date=5 November 2019 |title=St Mary’s Anglican Church celebrates 100 years of worship |url=https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/central-and-north-burnett/st-marys-anglican-church-celebrates-100-years-of-worship/image-gallery/ad0e16b8a55bccd2403b2e38c81be57c |access-date=24 January 2023 |website=The Courier Mail}} The church is variously described as being located at Boompa, Brooweena, or Teebar.{{Cite web |last=Design |first=UBC Web |title=St Mary's Anglican Church {{!}} Churches Australia |url=https://www.churchesaustralia.org/list-of-churches/locations/queensland/a-b-towns/directory/3697-st-maryand#39;s-anglican-church |access-date=2023-01-22 |website=www.churchesaustralia.org |language=en}}

In the {{CensusAU|2016}}, Boompa had a population of 83 people.{{Census 2016 AUS|id=SSC30322|name=Boompa (SSC)|access-date=20 October 2018|quick=on}}

In the {{CensusAU|2021}}, Boompa had a population of 89 people.{{Census 2021 AUS|id=SAL30320|name=Boompa (SAL)|access-date=28 February 2023|quick=on}}

Fraser Coast Regional Council placed the St Mary’s Church and Cemetery on its Local Heritage Register.{{Cite web |last= |date=20 October 2021 |title=Local Heritage Register v6 |url=https://www.frasercoast.qld.gov.au/downloads/file/2323/local-heritage-register |access-date=22 January 2023 |website=Fraser Coast Regional Council |at=Place ID 93}}

There are no schools in Boompa. The nearest government primary schools are Brooweena State School in neighbouring Brooweena to the north-east, Biggenden State School in neighbouring Biggenden to the north-west, and Coalstoun Lakes State School in Coalstoun Lakes to the west. The nearest government secondary schools include Biggenden State School (to Year 10). For secondary schooling to Year 12, the nearest government schools are Aldridge State High School in Maryborough to the east, Isis District State School in Childers to the north, and Burnett State College in Gayndah to the west, but most of Boompa is too distant from these three schools for a daily commute, so the alternatives for Year 12 schooling are distance education and boarding school.{{cite web |title=Layers: Locality; Schools and school catchments |url=https://qldglobe.information.qld.gov.au/ |access-date=18 November 2024 |website=Queensland Globe |publisher=Queensland Government}}

There is a cemetery beside St Mary's Anglican Church ({{coord|-25.6158|152.2346|type:landmark_region:AU-QLD|name=cemetery}}).{{Cite web |date=12 November 2020 |title=Cemetery Areas - Queensland |url=https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/built-features-queensland-series/resource/2baca5c3-a111-4fbc-86c9-3b896884438b |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115100513/https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/built-features-queensland-series/resource/2baca5c3-a111-4fbc-86c9-3b896884438b |archive-date=15 November 2020 |access-date=12 November 2020 |website=Queensland Open Data |publisher=Queensland Government}}

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• {{Cite book |last=Gauld |first=Gail |url=https://onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au/permalink/61SLQ_INST/11l3i0/alma997634894702061 |title=Brooweena State School Centenary 1904-2004 |last2=Dombrow |first2=Alice |publisher=Brooweena State School Centenary Committee |year=2004 |isbn=0646430947}} —includes information on other schools: Braemar, Woocoo, Teebar East, Teebar West, Boompa, Idahlia, Dunmora, Musket Flat, Bowling Green, Aramara North, Aramara, and Gungaloon.

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