Greenvale State School is located in the town of Greenvale, North Queensland. It is a co-educational primary school and caters for students from Prep to Year Seven. The school is central to the township of Greenvale, which is located approximately 210 kilometres North of Charters Towers and 270 kilometres North / West of Townsville.

Greenvale State School works closely with the other schools in the Dalrymple Collaborative Cluster: Mt Fox, Pentland, Homestead Prairie and Ravenswood. The locations of these schools can be seen on the Townsville Education District map.