The school is one of four covered by a $298 million public private partnership contract the Ministry of Education signed with building consortium Future Schools Partners last week.
It will move from its present site in Gorge Rd, near Queenstown's town centre, to a 7ha site at Remarkables Park.
Mr Hall said with the new campus set to open in February 2018, the deal provided certainty to the school community and ''focused the mind'' on the work to be done in the next three years.
''It's an incredibly exciting project for us.''
As the financial stage of the project came to a close, the Future Schools Partners team the school had been working with for the past 12 months would ''morph'' as the next stage of the project began.
''We have been working for a year on the design parts that we have input into, which has been particularly around the physical layout and the learning and specialist areas.''
The new school would incorporate the ministry's latest thinking on school design, incorporating ''modern learning environment'' principles already applied to some extent in Wakatipu Basin schools, including Remarkables, Shotover and Arrowtown primary schools, he said.
Under the public private partnership, Future Schools Partners is responsible for designing, financing, building and maintaining the school property.
