In the wake of a sudden and exponential influx of Indian workers and professionals in Saudi Arabia as a consequence of the 1973 energy crisis and subsequent oil boom, the new generation of expatriate families in the country struggled to provide their children with quality-education as the British and American schools were costly enough get enrolled, and thus, infeasible.

Zeenat Musarrat Jafri, an Indian educator from Lucknow and a former teacher at Kendriya Vidyalaya who had arrived in Riyadh in 1979 with her husband,[2] also faced similar hurdles in enrolling her three-year-old son into a proper school.

[5] Boys and girls have been accommodated in two separate buildings since 1995 to comply with national educational policies in Saudi Arabia.

The present Boys' school functioned as the only campus till a second premise 5 km away on Khurais Road was started to accommodate female students.

The new management committee for the school was announced on 03 September 2024, and it will be headed by Mrs Shahnas Abdul Jaleel as chairperson.

In late 2011, he reached the retirement age of 60 years and asked to be relieved so that he could go back to India and run an educational NGO.

Apart from the high academic standards envisaged by the scheme of studies, an array of co-curricular activities in Elocution, Debate, Declamation, Recitation, Quiz, Essay —writing, Exhibitions, Sports, Picnics, Annual Day, every Thursday circles and several other such activities are incorporated in the curriculum for the growth and the development of the pupils.