 New Farm State School is important to its suburban district as a key social focus for the community, as generations of students have been taught there and many social events have been held in the school's grounds and buildings since its establishment.New Farm State School occupies a site in a residential area of the suburb of New Farm, approximately northeast of the Brisbane CBD.The school occupies a levelled site on formerly steeply-sloping terrain, and is primarily accessed from Heal Street to the northwest.