Highfields is a town and locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, the locality of Highfields had a population of 8,568 people.

The area probably takes its name from Edward Pechey who owned property and a Sawmill in the area. He came from Langham in Essex, where there was a Highfields School. although the Globe suggests there was a Highfields pastoral run, north of the township. The area was first developed in the 1860s. Initially, there were a number of sawmills in the area, harvesting the local timber. Then the construction of the railway line between Ipswich and Toowoomba (completed in 1867) brought railway workers to the district. As the timber-getters cleared the land, dairy farms were established. The first post office openly briefly in 1866 with a weekly mail service from Toowoomba. It re-opened in 1868 and changed its name in December 1877 to Koojarewon.

The Highfields School opened on 17 January 1870 in the Rising Sun Hotel under teacher Mr Larkin. The first school building was constructed in the 1880s. In 1907, the school was renamed Koojarawon, but was reverted to Highfields by the end of 1907.

In 1879, a Baptist Church opened in Highfields. On Sunday 22 November 1908, the church was reopened following a major reconstruction.

In 1907, the protests of residents resulted in both the school and the post office returning to the name Highfields. Another post office in the Highfields area is now the Geham Post Office.

View Glen State School opened on Highfields Road on 25 May 1914. It closed in 1924.

At the start of the 1960s, Highfields remained a rural community with, at one stage, only 9 children enrolled in the Highfields State School. However, residential subdivision started to occur in the 1960s, to a point where it is now considered a satellite town of Toowoomba. As at 2014, the school was one of the largest primary schools in the Toowoomba and Darling Downs region.

Toowoomba Christian College opened on 30 January 1979.