There are currently 10 primary schools, 4 high schools and 1 university in the Kalgoorlie-Boulder area.

 Primary schools

• Boulder Primary School
• East Kalgoorlie Primary School
• Goldfields Baptist College (private)
• Hannan's Primary School
• Kalgoorlie Primary School
• North Kalgoorlie Primary School
• O'Connor Primary School
• Saint Joseph's Primary School (private)
• Saint Mary's Primary School (Kalgoorlie Catholic Primary School) (private)
• South Kalgoorlie Primary School

 High schools

• Eastern Goldfields College (formerly the Eastern Goldfields Senior High School Senior Campus)
• Goldfields Baptist College (private)
• John Paul College (formerly Prendiville College & Christian Bros. College (amalgamated)) (private)
• Kalgoorlie-Boulder Community High School (formerly the Eastern Goldfields Senior High School Middle School Campus)

 Universities

• Curtin University of Technology - Kalgoorlie Campus (includes the Western Australian School of Mines and Curtin VTEC; formerly Kalgoorlie College)
• University of Western Australia and University of Notre Dame Australia - Rural Clinical School of Western Australia

 Sport

Kalgoorlie-Boulder's location, being approximately 600 km from Perth, contributes to high levels of participation in Australian rules football, netball, basketball, soccer, hockey and cricket. Other popular sports in Kalgoorlie include tennis, lawn bowls, rugby league, rugby union and swimming.

Kalgoorlie also has a international squash tournament held every year at the YMCA.

In a statewide sense, the semi-professional Goldfields Giants basketball team competes in the State Basketball League (SBL), and has won the past two SBL championships.

The Kalgoorlie Brothers play in the Western Australia Rugby League Tooheys Cup rugby league competition.

Horse racing is also very popular in the city, and Kalgoorlie-Boulder is home to the internationally recognised annual 'Race Round'. Content via Wikipedia