It was founded in 1344 by Isabella of France, widow of Edward II, making it one of the oldest schools in the United Kingdom.

Started by Edward II's widow Queen Isabella in 1344,[2] Bablake (or Babbelak in Middle English) was a public school first sited at Hill Street in Coventry.

[citation needed] Bablake church, now known as St John's, still stands adjacent to the school's original buildings.

[2] In the 1890s, Bablake began to move to its current site in Coundon Road, where it continued as a public school with six all-boys boarding houses.

In the 1930s fifty acres of land on Hollyfast Road were purchased to expand the playing fields of the school.

The arms of Bablake School are those of its benefactor, Thomas Wheatley: Sanguine a Lion Rampant Argent, on a Chief Or, Three Mullets of the second.

The main school building contains rooms for history, geography, computer science, art, design & technology and maths.