[1][2] It is administered by the Queensland Catholic Education Commission, with an enrolment of 1,491 students and a teaching staff of 103, as of 2023.

[citation needed] It was one of five schools to open in Upper Coomera since the 1990s, due to significant growth within the region at the time.

[7] The school was christened by Archbishop John Bathersby and opened by Anna Bligh, the education minister, on 10 July 2005.

[4] As such, most of the buildings in the college are named after places in Italy, which were also of importance to St Francis of Assisi – Greccio, Gubbio, Bonaventure, Perugia, San Damiano, Orvieto, Cortona, La Verna, Chiara, Sostegno, Umbria and Bertoldi.

The exceptions are that of Bertoldi and the Pope Francis centre, the former of which is named after the architecture firm of the same name which is responsible for all the designs and construction work of the buildings, and the latter is in reference to Pope Francis, serving as the spiritual centre of the College.