 The School was established in 1935 by Isobel Travers and Audrey Morphett as Fahan Presbyterian Girls' College.The school was named after the village of Fahan (pronounced 'Fawn') in Inishowen in County Donegal in Ulster, Ireland.The school has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 383 students from Pre–Kindergarten (PK) to Year 12, including boarders from years 5 to 12.