Milton State School students will attend classes at other facilities for the rest of the term. 

It’s one of eight schools in south-east Queensland that still can’t open due to flooding.

Milton State School Principal Paul Zernikie told Neil Breen kids can’t return with the amount of mud left behind.

“We’ve managed to keep a lot of it out of the water this time but you still end up losing the bottom floor of most of the buildings that have been there for quite a long time,” Mr Zernikie said.

“We’ve got a couple of classrooms we lost this time, not as many as last time, but [the] music room, science room, our tuckshop, our uniform shop, the outside school hours care facility, all the storage.

“You’d have to be looking at close to $300,000-worth of gear.”

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Education Minister Grace Grace told Neil Breen contractors were able to get more than 50 schools ready to reopen since Thursday.

“It is getting much tougher because the building and construction industry is going through a bit of a boom,” she said.

“The cost of materials has gone up significantly.

“[But] we had about 64, 65 state schools that were out as of Thursday and can you believe here we are on Monday and that’s down to six.”

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Image: Milton State School