The two parties reached an agreement just before Christmas to operate the existing small gym, indoor courts and two adjoining classrooms from February until the ministry makes a decision on the future of the Gorge Rd site.
Council community services general manager Thunes Cloete said the Queenstown Gymnastics Club had exclusive use of the gym while it continued to seek a permanent home.
Now, sports clubs and community groups could book the other spaces at a ''nominal rate''.
''They were all in use last term and remain in good order.
''We've completed some minor maintenance work to ensure health and safety compliance and provided some equipment and furniture,'' Dr Cloete said.
''The indoor courts are a great venue for activities like yoga, Zumba and general fitness training as well as sports like volleyball, futsal and netball.
''The classrooms provide useful extra space for meetings and presentations close to central Queenstown.''
Dr Cloete said it made ''perfect sense'' for the council's sport and recreation team to help make the facilities available to the community while the long-term future of the high school was being decided.
The council was also helping the ''small number of users'' of the high school's decommissioned pool to swim at the council-owned Alpine Aqualand facility at Frankton.
The Otago Daily Times asked the Ministry of Education last week if it had made a decision on the future of the former school site - specifically if it would retain it, or seek to sell it to another party.
A ministry spokesman said there was ''no update to report'' at present and ''the design process can take months to complete''.
