Academic tradition argues that this school is the successor to one of the first formal education institutions in the country, which still dates from the colonial period.

With the advent of the educational reforms of the 1970s, the first democratic ones, the LFM is totally under the control of the State, excluding the joint tutelage of the Catholic Church.

The institution was reformulated, in the principles of pancasila, so that it trained secondary school students and also technicians in teaching, forming two distinct sections.

[9] In 1999, due to the result of the referendum that confirmed Timor's independence, a wave of violence followed that destroyed the Becora School, as well as most of the country's educational establishments.

[12] In 2009, the Becora Police and the East Timor Defence Forces renovated the ESP 28 de Novembro building.