The Governor General of the Belgian Congo appealed to the Jesuits to instruct and educate the increasing number of young Europeans in Léopoldville.

Two Jesuit priests and a scholastic along with a layman handled the first three classes as well as school and extracurricular activities.

The curriculum was deliberately styled after that of the Jesuit St John Berchmans College, Brussels.

[1] In 1940, the college had to accommodate all European children without religious distinction, since they had become stranded in Africa by the Second World War.

The year 1954 opened a new phase in the history of the College with its enrollment of the first six Congolese students.