The school is located at Jalan Syed Putra near The Royal Museum, and is situated between Brickfields and Bukit Petaling.

[3] Kuen Cheng High School was founded in the year 1908, making it one of the oldest educational establishments in Malaysia.

Based on the prevailing social neglect of women's education, the founders of Kuen Cheng Girls' High School, Wu Xuehua, principal Zhong Zhuo Jing, his wife, Yoshiko Watanabe, and Cheong Yoke Choy upheld female education and aimed to break the traditional concept.

The school aimed to implement a hybrid teaching system, focusing on the Chinese Language, characters, arithmetic and more.

In 1915, the school founded its own kindergarten, opening up opportunities in Chinese education for young children.

In 1941 during World War II, the Japanese army invaded the country, and the school was forced to close.

In 1962, Kuen Cheng strived to preserve Chinese education and decided to maintain its position as an independent Chinese school, and its status was officially changed to an "independent secondary school", not receiving any funding from the federal government.