The exact history of Mackellar as a school is not well-known, but it is believed to have been a school prior to 1967, rather as a
co-educational school. Prior to being established at the site in manly vale, it was a co-educational campus at the current location of primary school, Manly Village Public School. In 1968 Manly Vale High School was established, and then became Mackellar Girls' High School, named in honour of
Dorothea Mackellar, in 2003. Under the name Manly Vale High School, the school was believed to have been reinvented as a girls
home economics school in 1967, with the intention of creating strong and diligent girls to enter the workforce. ==Overview==