The school, to accommodate 200 students, was built on land at the top of Avoca Street, Randwick, with Mr E.M. Grant as the first Headmaster.

[4] Alanson's successor from 1929, E. Nettleship, put forward the idea in 1930 that Randwick Intermediate should be made into a full five-year high school.

The School motto "Labore et Honore" (Work and Honour) is credited to have been devised by a Latin/English teacher, Harry Kresner, around 1948.

[4] By the early 1950s there were calls to relocate the school to a new site recently obtained by the Department of Education, on the corner of Rainbow and Avoca Streets.

Many places have been gained by the combined team, first reaching the finals in 1995, being a regular finalist since that time and winning the Premier Division in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006 and 2007.