Miss Ethel Milne opened a girls' day kindergarten school on Wentworth Street, Manly, in 1880. they were admitted again to the infants' department in the early 1940s. By 1946 the school was divided into three schools: kindergarten, middle and upper. The school moved frequently in its early years: it was located variously at Wood Street, Fairlight Street, and James Street, It was also briefly located on
Pittwater Road (opposite
Manly Park) and in
North Steyne; when it vacated the last of these the building was then briefly occupied by the Manly Grammar School. named 'Vista Reale', and located on the corner of Fairlight Street and The Crescent. In doing so, Hayes-Williams kept the name Brighton College for the combined school, In 1927 the school moved to what would become its final location, 'Kurrumboola', on the corner of Margaret Street and 38 The Crescent, at the
Fairlight end of Manly. The branch school was moved into the main building in 1924. In 1942 the school obtained the former
Chief Justice Sir
Adrian Knox's country estate, 'Dalkeith', in
Gundagai as a country branch.
Physical culture was taught by Hans Christian
Bjelke-Peterson. The
Wyndham Report of 1957 into secondary school education led to the Public Education Act 1961 and the closure of smaller private schools; Brighton College was one such school, closing in 1960. ==Houses==