[4][5] The school's catchment area stretched from Eastwood to North Sydney and its student population was known for a wide diversity of cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

[6] In December 1987, the new School Library was officially opened by the Minister for Education and Member for Gladesville, Rodney Cavalier.

[7] As a result of falling enrolments in the late 1990s, the department made the decision to close the school by December 1998, on the basis that enrolments would continue to fall, with the remaining students transferred to Malvina High School.

[8][9] Following the school's closure, in 2006 the NSW Department of Education and Training sold the site to Dexus Property Group for $51.75 million.

[14] In response, the mayor of Ryde, Jerome Laxale, called upon the government to buy back the land for a new school, to help alleviate the high demand for schools in the Ryde area: "This is a great opportunity for the State Government to purchase the land of the proposed Masters Store and meet the increasing need for schools in this area that it did not address in its 'Plan for Growing Sydney'".