[1] On Tuesday, 23 November 2004, then Education and Training Minister Alan Carpenter announced a $23million secondary school to open in Atwell on the corner of Bartram Road and Brenchley Drive in January 2008.

[7] On Friday, 27 February 2009, then Education Minister Liz Constable officially opened Atwell College.

Atwell Stage 2 was completed on 1 January 2012 to house the additional students costing a total of A$21 million.

[13][14] While this newly built two-level senior learning building was originally designed to be used for students in Years 11 and 12, it was later made available to all cohorts.

Complications with the site were unstable soils which required the installation of 262 screw piles before construction of Stage 2 could commence.

[15] On 27 March 2017, a fire was reported at 2:45 am in the college's Library and was later found to have been started in the air-conditioning unit above the building.