Paterson College is a private, non-denominational, co-educational K–12 school located in the City of Gold Coast suburb of Arundel, Queensland, Australia.

Throughout the late 90s, more permanent structures were built for different uses (science labs, a childcare centre, more high school classrooms).

Paterson completed the construction of the Dunlop Multi-Purpose Centre complex, containing physical education classrooms, indoor sports courts, and a gym.

After purchasing a parcel of land in 2021, construction of the Barty's Place accommodation facility was completed, and an opening ceremony was held on July 16, 2023.

The reaction from the parent base of the school was divided, with some saying that "if they picked two females the silence would be deafening"—in response the media's presentation of the issue.

The principal, Joanne Sheehy, cited that the sale of the house presented a "strategic opportunity," and that the purpose of the purchase was to earmark it for potential future use as teacher accommodation.

[25] Sheehy stated that the proposal was entirely petitioned by the development company to the government and local residents, and that the school had no involvement other than their support of the concept.

Paterson College bases its pedagogy on the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Teaching for Understanding (TfU) model.

The TfU model as implemented by the school intends to base the internal curriculum around lessons aimed at forming a complete understanding of a topic within a student's mind, as opposed to more conventional knowledge-retention-based methods which focus on the singular metric of improving standardised testing scores.

[27] The study cites improved teacher-student relationships and better classroom learning effectiveness as a result of a teaching style based around understanding over memorisation.