The school is named after Ludgero Lima, a former employee and fighter for Cape Verdean independence,[1] who died in an aviation accident in March 1975.

[2]: 62 [3] Since 1968 it is housed in a building on Rua Jonas Wanon, in the neighbourhood Chã de Cemitério,[1] southeast of the city centre, designed by the Portuguese architect Eurico Pinto Lopes.

Later, on January 15, 1926, the institution was named as Liceu Central Infante D. Henrique, after publication of the colonial legislative diploma 92.

[3] In 1955, following the visit of the President of the Republic Francisco Craveiro Lopes, the "Secção do Liceu Gil Eanes" was created in Praia.

Until 1968, the institution was located in the Casa Senador Vera Cruz building, in Praça Nova, in Mindelo.