The school quickly became the hub of many Coloured and Asian communities in Harare, home to the few educational and sporting institutions that had a mixed race majority.

The main railway to Bulawayo is located just south of the CBD, which is where Arcadia developed as the housing for mixed race and Asian people to provide cheap labour for industry nearby.

[3] In the 1950s and 1960s nearby many Coloured workers were drawn to the area due to its proximity to Willowvale, Southerton and Workington which offered attractive industrial employment and where they competed for jobs with Africans in Highfield and attracted Portuguese and Italian immigrants in nearby Willowvale and Avenues, most of whom came directly from Portugal and Mozambique, and the poorest of whom settled in Arcadia close to the railway.

Similarly, many younger Coloured people increasingly emigrate after school, joining the ranks of the Zimbabwean diaspora, leaving mostly families with young children and older residents in the area.

[7] In soccer, recent attempts have been made to revive Arcadia United FC, a championship mixed-race side from the 1970s and 1980s before it folded in the nineties.

Several diasporic chapters exist in the UK and Australia and there are attempts to revive a side that can compete in the Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League.