the site began life as manly girls high school, as a single-sex sister school for girls only to manly boys high school, a single-sex school for boys only, now re-constituted as the co-educational selective manly selective campus. in 1983 freshwater high school was formed as a co-educational school catering for students from year 7 to year 12. during 2002 and 2003 freshwater high school was re-constituted as the freshwater senior campus of northern beaches secondary college.