The area was the first outside the city centre to be subdivided for residential purposes in 1865. Spreydon College commenced on 4 February 1908 in the now-heritage listed
Spreydon house. Under the patronage of the Presbyterian Church, the school became The Presbyterian Ladies' College in January 1915. The primary school moved to the house
Fairholme in
East Toowoomba in July 1917 with the secondary school following in 1918; it is now known as
Fairholme College. Glennie Memorial School was opened on 27 August 1908 by the Anglican Church. Establishing schools had been a long-term ambition of
Benjamin Glennie, the first Anglican priest on the
Darling Downs, and he had raised funds for this purpose for many years, but had not achieved his aim before his death in 1900. Glennie was highly respected by the community and the Anglican Synod continued with his fund raising campaign to establish a school to be named in his honour. The Newtown Methodist Church opened in 1911 at 202 Russell Street (). With the amalgamation of the Methodist Church into the
Uniting Church in Australia in 1977, it became the Newtown Uniting Church.The property was sold in December 2013 for $748,000 as part of an amalgamation of three Uniting Church congregations (Newtown, Scots and
Westbrook) into the Lifeworks Uniting Church congregation, which opened its first church in
Glenvale circa July 2017. The former Newtown Methodist Church is now a childcare centre. From 1913 to 1917, Newtown had its own local government, the
Town of Newtown. Newtown State School opened on 6 October 1924.
St Ursula's College was established on 2 February 1931 by the
Sisters of St Ursula. Toowoomba West Special School opened on 4 October 1975. Clifford Park Special School opened in 1990 in Robb Street. A second campus (the Denise Kable campus) opened at 58 Ramsay Street,
Centenary Heights, in January 1998. == Demographics ==