St Joseph’s Primary School Corinda has operated since 1917. Two other educational institutions operated along side the primary school over the decades.
1912 St Joseph’s Catholic Church is blessed and opened by Coadjutor Archbishop James Duhig on 3rd November.
1916 St Joseph’s Primary School is built next to the church. On 25th July an existing house is purchased in Clewley Street Corinda by Archbishop Duhig, as a convent for the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart.
1917 St Joseph’s Primary School and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Convent are blessed and opened on 28th January by Archbishop Duhig. Mother Chanel Bergin is appointed as the first Superior of Corinda Convent.
1917 St Joseph’s Primary school opens on 29th January with 50 students attending on the first day.
1918 Two adjacent properties are purchased by the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in Clewley Street on the 3rd May, to be used as a junior boys boarding school.
1919 Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Junior Boys Boarding School, is blessed and opened by Archbishop Duhig on 19th January. This school operates until the late 1930’s.
1926 Extensions to St Joseph’s Church are blessed and opened by Monsignor James Byrne on 18th July.
1941 Our Lady of the Sacred Heart College Corinda is opened and blessed as a girls secondary school for both day and boarding students. The college is opened in the buildings formerly occupied by the junior boys boarding school.
1952 Further extensions to St Joseph’s Church are blessed by Archbishop Duhig on 23rd November.
1950’s & 1960’s St Joseph’s Primary School has many extensions and modifications including additional classrooms and the lifting of the entire school to accommodate a tuckshop and parish hall under the school rooms.
1960 OLSH College ceases to house boarding students.
1965 OLSH College is raised and extended. The refurbished and extended two storey building is blessed and opened by Archbishop Duhig on 28th February.
1968 The new Church of St Joseph is opened and blessed by Archbishop Patrick Mary O’Donnell on 15th December.
1972 The old church is demolished and a new presbytery and parish office (built on the site of the 1912 church) is blessed and opened by Archbishop O’Donnell on 22nd October.
1972 OLSH College Corinda closes at the end of the school year.
1973 St Joseph’s Primary school locates some classes and the Principal’s Office into the former College building.
1976 The old convent is demolished and a new convent (on the opposite side of Clewley Street) is opened and blessed by Archbishop Francis Rush on 14th November.
1976 The new infant block is blessed and opened by Archbishop Francis Rush. 1978 The original 1917 primary school building and parish hall are destroyed by fire. 1980 A new two storey classroom block is built, including new tuckshop facilities.
1991 A new parish hall is blessed by Rev Michael Fallon P.P., and opened by Mrs Kath Hennessy (foundation student od St Joseph’s School) on 16th June.
1993 The Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart withdraw from St Joseph’s School and a lay principal is appointed.
1996 The boundaries of St Joseph’s Parish Corinda and Christ the King Parish Graceville are suppressed to form the new Catholic Parish of Corinda Graceville.
1997 The new Catholic Parish of Corinda Graceville is officially promulgated on 13th February.
1998 Part of the school (former college buildings) are demolished.
1998 A new administration block and library are opened.
2000 Another section of the former college buildings are demolished. 2001 A new classroom block is opened on the site of the old college.
2006 A prep building is opened.
2008 New principal appointed.
2011 Two buildings (1976 & 1980 blocks) are demolished to enable the construction of two modern classroom blocks along Martindale Street.
2012 Hall refurbishment takes place.
2013 New library is built and the refurbishment of Administration and old library is undertaken.