Sapphire Provisional School opened in 1904. On 1 January 1909 it became Sapphire State School. It closed in 1939. Sapphire was one of three towns within the locality of
The Gemfields (the others being
Anakie and
Rubyvale) until 17 April 2020, when the Queensland Government decided to replace The Gemfields with three new localities (Sapphire Central,
Anakie Siding and Rubyvale) based around each of the three towns respectively. The boundaries of the locality of
Argyll were also modified to accommodate the introduction of the locality of Sapphire Central with an area of . == Demographics ==