It includes both day and boarding students.

Founders High School was founded in January 1952 as Southern Rhodesia's first secondary school for Coloured and Asian students.

[1][2] It was established at the Herbert Stanley Hostel on Dundee Drive in the Barham Green area of Bulawayo.

[1] Today, most of its students are black Africans from suburbs including Emganwini, Nketa, Tshabalala, Southwold, Bellevue and Nkulumane.

In 2016, the school received an award called the Secretary's Bell