[2] Following the review, the school closed at the end of 2017 with the reasons being "limited enrolment growth" and the need for the Ivanhoe parish to consolidate their resources.

The site of the church was bought by George Brunswick Smyth to be a part of his property, the 'Chelsworth Estate', a 215-hectare (approx.)

In around 1900, the majority of the estate was purchased by Philip Champion de Crespigny and William Lawson Davidson.

In 1951, new owners of the land again, subdivided the property into the parcels that exist today and in January 1956, the Roman Catholic Trusts Corporation for the Diocese of Melbourne purchased the site for the constriction of a church.

An article in Catholic Weekly newspaper, The Advocate said:[7] As a result of the meeting held at the home of Mr. Frank Galbally, Withers-street, East Ivanhoe, recently, the forty or so present unanimously decided that a church should be erected in the vicinity to meet the needs of the Catholics of this rapidly growing residential suburb who find that they are too remote from the churches at Heidelberg and Ivanhoe.

Father J. Geoghegan, P.P., Immaculate Conception parish, Ivanhoe, is in charge of the district embraced by the proposed church.The Mother of God Church, located across the road from the school at 56 Wilfred Road, Ivanhoe East, was constructed in 1956–57 at the beginning of the boom in post war church construction.

The church was designed by the noted architects Mockridge, Stahle and Mitchell, and built by Clements Langford Pty Ltd.