An eight-metre high brick wall over the top of Villanova College's seniors area, classrooms and tuckshop at Coorparoo has collapsed, luckily while students are on holidays.

Villanova College principal Mark Stower said the timing of the wall collapse on December 27, 2016 could be considered "the grace of God."

Scaffolding and tarpaulins cover the damaged front of Villanova College's Veritas Building where a brick wall has collapsed.

"It is not my place to speculate what it would have been like during a school term," he said.

"But it happened at the quietest time of the year.