page_title: Aloomba, Queensland
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Aloomba, Queensland / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Aloomba State School, Aloomba, Queensland, Australia, circa 1914
context_page_description: Aloomba is a town and a locality in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Aloomba had a population of 529 people.
context_section_description: The town name is a corruption of the Yidinji word "Ngalumba", indicating hard milkwood tree (Alstonia Muellerana).
  Aloomba Provisional School opened on 15 May 1899, becoming Aloomba State School on 1 January 1909.
caption: Aloomba State School, circa 1914
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