A security upgrade at Aurukun allowing its school to reopen on Thursday has failed to convince five teachers to return to the troubled Cape York community.
The teachers - a mix of experienced and new staff - will instead be relocated to other Queensland schools with the full backing of the Education Department.
About 20 staff from the Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy made their way back to Aurukun on Tuesday and Wednesday following the school's week-long closure.
It followed a spate of violent incidents, including an attack by three teenagers on the principal with the blunt end of an axe after they were loitering outside teachers' accommodation.
Three more teenagers have also been charged over other alleged criminal activity in the town in the past fortnight.
Education Minister Kate Jones told AAP the teachers who had chosen not to return had her "full support".
Queensland Teacher's Union president Kevin Bates said he was certain the department was 100 per cent behind the educators who had chosen to teach elsewhere.
"It's been made absolutely clear the choice is entirely in the hands of each individual teacher," he told AAP.
"They were told whatever they did the government would stand behind them and they wouldn't suffer any negative consequences."
Mr Bates, who met with the evacuated teachers in Cairns on Monday, said most staff wanted to return to the far north Queensland community.
"A real feature for me was the overwhelming views about being there for the children and not necessarily focusing on their own wellbeing and concerns," he said.
Community leaders, government representatives and police met in the town on Friday in a bid to put a stop to the unrest in Aurukun.
Aurukun Mayor Dereck Walpo told parents and guardians at a fiery public meeting they should be "ashamed" of their failure to look after their children.
The recent unrest has also led to the re-surfacing of video footage first aired in February, which showed police watching one-on-one street fights.
Northern region Assistant Police Commissioner Paul Taylor said on Tuesday it was sometimes "extremely difficult" for officers to intervene.
"Often, when police get to these incidents, there are large numbers of spectators and the complexities in Aurukun mean those people are all related to the combatants, and they are highly emotionally charged," he said.
The government has announced a string of security upgrades to the teachers accommodation in Aurukun while CCTV will also be installed throughout the community.
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