St Peter’s is a private, diocesan preparatory school.

In 1948 Mr Stanley Dodson resigned as Headmaster of St John’s Preparatory School, Johannesburg and retired to his 30 acre farm “Rietfontein”, situated in open country 25 kilometres to the north of the city centre. Two years later, in 1950 St Peter’s Prep School opened its doors to its first few pupils.

The school was purchased from Mr Dodson in 1954 and in 1959 negotiations were completed with the Diocese of Johannesburg for St Peter’s to become its second Anglican boys’ school. The school expanded to include a separate girls’ school in 2006 with a group of young Grade 0 and Grade 1 girls. The girls school has grown each year and in 2011 the girls range in age from 5 to 12 (Grade 0 to Grade 6).     

Over the six years of its existence the school has expanded to include classrooms, playing fields, tennis/netball courts, a swimming pool, computer centre and computer study centre and an Academic Support Unit, which offers occupational therapy, speech therapy and learning support. The new hall and library were opened in 2011. The school shares a beautiful chapel with the boys, situated at the centre of the two schools.

Trish Attlee is the founding headmistress of the Girls’ School and Greg Royce is the Rector of the two schools.