The school was officially opened by the Governor of Victoria – Sir Rohan Delacombe on 14 November 1972.

[3] On 5 July 2010, a suspicious fire destroyed three classrooms that were to be demolished.

[4] In May 2009, the Victorian State Government announced funding (A$10.4million) for a two-part development of a new state of the art complex on the Reay Road site (current Mooroolbark site) to replace the previous Cambridge Road and Reay Road campuses.

As a part of the modernisation project the school was renamed in 2013 to Yarra Hills Secondary College.

The modernisation project finished in August 2013, and saw the closure of the original Cambridge site in late October.