It was founded by Carolina Nunes Vais (1856-1932), a Jewish Italian educator from Livorno.
[2][3] It was founded one year after the Italian Boys' School was established in Libya by Giannetto Paggi, who was also from Livorno.
[4] The first Director of the Italian Girls' School was Carolina Nunes Vais, who was a Jewish teacher from Livorno in Italy.
[2] At the school's inception, the main subjects taught were Italian reading and writing, needlework, cookery and arithmetic.
[2] The whole Italian colonial educational system in Libya had an annual budget of 100,000 francs and of that, in 1911, 12,500 was spent on the school and its 348 pupils.