Established originally as a Government school which passed into the control of the Methodist Mission in 1899, due to the efforts of the Reverend W E Horley who was based in Ipoh and had founded the Anglo-Chinese School, Ipoh in 1895.

The Teluk Anson school was an attap thatched building on stilts, enclosed with weather boarding of split bamboo.

Horley held a meeting of the leading residents of Teluk Anson in the Lower Perak Chinese Club and collected funds to put up a bigger and better school.

Secondary education commenced in the school as early as 1922 with a few boys taking the Senior Cambridge Examination.

When the war came in Malaya in December 1941, the school was looted of all its equipment, and a Japanese garrison occupied it.