The girls' school was opened on 26 September 1905 by Beilby Lawley, 3rd Baron Wenlock; it cost £3,500.

In November 1938, 13-year-old Tom Elliott of Weaverthorpe died at the school when a small splinter of bone in a playground accident punctured a main artery.

In 1975 the LEA (one year after Humberside County Council was formed with its base in Beverley) changed the school to a comprehensive.

Most of the lower school site has become a housing estate, although the main building, visible from Quay Road, has been preserved and converted into flats.

The school motto is “Vitai Lampada Tradunt,” taken from the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius' De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of the Universe – Book II, Line 79), and directly translates as "They Hand on the Torch of Life."