page_title: Kleinton, Queensland
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Kleinton, Queensland / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Kleinton State School in the Toowoomba District, 1910. The Kleinton State School is approximately 20 kms from Toowoomba.
context_page_description: Kleinton is a rural locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Kleinton had a population of 1,617 people.
context_section_description: The locality was named after early selector Michael Klein who was shot dead at Highfields in February 1870 by James Alexander Herlich following a dispute.
  The Crows Nest railway line, which operated between 1883 and 1961, had a stop at Kleinton.
  Kleinton State School opened on 20 February 1911 on land donated by the Brazier family who owned the local brickworks. The school closed on December 1970.  In 1975 the Amaroo Environmental Education Centre opened in the former school building.
caption: Kleinton State School, 1910
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