 Originally catering for boys in primary to intermediate years (Years 1-10), the school would not go on to teach Secondary (Years 7-12) years until 1965 and then in 2021 would change again to educate both girls and boys from Kindergarten through to Year 12.The Marist Brother originally opened the school in response to the educational needs of the poor in the North Sydney area, which was, at the time, a low socioeconomic area.The school was the fourth Marist School opened in Australia after Church Hill (1872), Parramatta (1875) and Hunters Hill (1881) and had a teaching staff of three Brothers and an enrolment of 65 boys.