[3] This has subsequently been confirmed by the New South Wales Department of Education and Training.

[2][6] As of 2015, the Parramatta Sun reported that the University of Western Sydney decided not to take up the lease and turn the school into the Lachlan Macquarie College, leaving the buildings of this school to be overtaken with graffiti and vandalism as a result.

The New South Wales Department of Education and Training was looking at selling the site, considered surplus to its needs.

All buildings on site were completely demolished in late August 2018 to make way for eleven residential and three commercial blocks, accommodating up to 6,200 people.

[7] Late in the night of 23 July 2016, a "suspicious" fire ruined the school's vacant main hall.