History and Heritage

In 1927, St Margaret’s School moved to Mayfield Avenue, Malvern, and in 1931 leased the former Governor’s residence, Stonnington. By the 1930s St Margaret’s School had grown to 330 pupils. In 1929, the School purchased its second campus, the current Berwick campus from Berwick Presbyterian Girls’ School and started operations in 1930 with a purpose-built boarding house, Campbell House (boarding concluded in 1978), and rapidly developed a reputation for producing academically accomplished, well-rounded and empowered young women. In 1941, the School consolidated onto a single campus in Berwick.

In 1947 the School was purchased by parents and Old Girls from Miss Gipson, who retired and the School was incorporated and the first School Council was established in 1948.

In 2009, following growth of demand, the school expanded, launching a purpose-built boys School, Berwick Grammar, on a dedicated 20-acre campus on Tivendale Road, Officer, 7km down the road from St Margaret’s Berwick Campus. The selection of land and the building process was chosen to allow space for the boys to move and to grow with extensive provision for sporting facilities.

In 2021 the schools were formally brought together under a new operating name St Margaret’s Berwick Grammar, with a new Diamond Education Model and a new visual identity designed to bring the community together.