It is near the YMCA Fangcun Branch and beside Guangzhou Puiying Middle School, which is founded in 1879 by Henry Varnum Noyes, who was the elder brother of Harriet Newell Noyes and another missionary and American Presbyterian.
On June 16, 1872, the True Light Academy was first founded in Shakee, and in 1913 it was moved to the current location.
Until 1996, it was finally renamed back as Guangzhou True Light Primary School.
formerly known as Yinghai Private Middle School in 1947 founded by a group of Teochew people.
In 1984, it was named back the Guangzhou True Light Middle School.