St Peter's Collegiate Girls' School

Our story

St Peter’s Girls was opened in 1894 by the Community of the Sisters of the Church, an Anglican order founded in London in 1870, whose sisters came to Adelaide in 1892 at Bishop Kennion’s invitation. It started with four pupils in Kermode Street, North Adelaide, where the Women’s and Children’s Hospital now stands. The school motto, Pro Ecclesia Dei, comes from the order.

In 1949 the school bought Chiverton House and 3.6 hectares at Stonyfell, and it moved there in May 1957 so the hospital could expand. The first lay head was appointed in 1969, a board of governors took over from the sisters in 1985, and the Centenary Wing marked 100 years in 1994. Today it is an Anglican girls’ day school from early learning to Year 12 on one Stonyfell campus, with about 873 students (2025), offering SACE and the IB Diploma.