School History

Ridge Park College ex-Windermere Girls’ High was originally located at Greyville Racecourse. In 1969, the Standard 6 learners were relocated to the current site at 399 Ridge Road, which was then the Berea Nursing Home. Rather than moving into the nursing home itself, they were accommodated in prefabricated classrooms situated where the present-day tennis and volleyball courts now stand.

Additional prefab classrooms occupied the upper hockey fields, while the nursing home was repurposed for school use, with its former operating theatre serving as the staffroom. As lessons continued in the temporary buildings, educators observed the construction of the new school – Berea Girls’ High, now Ridge Park College.

Ridge Park College was designed and built in 1972 by Ian Poole.