St Teresas Convent Pre-School is located in Johannesburg. St Theresa’s Convent School is a Holy Family School based in Coronationville for over 60 years.In 1887 the first Holy Family Sisters arrived in Johannesburg, which was a town of mixed population and a few permanent buildings. The population was increasing everyday as diggers arrived from all parts of the world to look for Gold on the Witwaterstrand. The First concern of the sisters was to educate the children and to care for the sick. They opened a little fee-paying school in Fox Street, and two years later in 1889, they started a Parochial school in President Street with St Theresa as its patroness.

All were welcome and since it was not a fee paying school, it quickly grew. The school in Fox street moved out of its cramped quarters to a more suitable site in End street and the school in President street continued to be staffed by sisters of the End street community.

As Johannesburg grew and changed the pupils had to come a long way to school, which was in the rapidly growing commercial district, so a plan was made to move the school into the newly developed Coronationville area. Negotiations with the government obtained a piece of land near to the railway line and the school was built there and opened in 1953. The sisters had a convent on site, which was also used as a Novitiate for the young Girls of South Africa, who were entering the Holy family religious life.