The Congregation responded by sending four Brothers: T. N. Bourke, P. B. Costello, H. F. Gygar, and T. P. O'Connor, who established their monastery and school in Manly, next to the Parish Church in Raglan Street.

Other long-standing features of school life included football, cricket, swimming, athletics, boxing, wrestling tournaments, and annual dramatic and musical concerts.

The Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal Gilroy, moved the college in 1965 from Raglan Street to its present site on Manly's Eastern Hill, in the grounds of St Patrick's Estate.

To these buildings the Waterford Centre was added in 2015, which boasts views of Sydney's Middle Harbour and a large multi-purpose space for sport and assembly.

Students and staff together raise funds for charitable purposes: Project Compassion, Catholic Mission, Society of St Vincent de Paul.

The Celtic form of the Cross hearkens back to the foundation of the college by the Christian Brothers, who were themselves founded by an Irishman, Edmund Ignatius Rice.

The shield is laid on an open scroll which bears the name of the college patron, St Paul the Apostle, and the motto, Prima Primum (First things first).