Phillip Lightbody, sitting member of the Legislative Council for St. James, successfully petitioned the Government to start a school for girls.

[4][5] The school started with forty students and three teachers, under the leadership of the first headmistress, Miss Blanche Jeffrey-Smith.

The school had no science laboratories at the time, so practical work for the Cambridge Examinations was conducted at Cornwall College.

During that decade, the leadership of the school was shared between Miss Ritchie (later Mrs. Croskery), Mrs. Marjorie Grahame, and Mrs. Janet Morrison.

The present-day second-form block was erected soon after and subsequently, the outdoor stage area made way for the teachers' hostel with two classrooms on the ground floor.

The "Tattoo" was demolished in the late fifties to make way for what is now the Main Building which contains administrative offices, staff room and lounge, chemistry, biology, as well as food and nutrition laboratories, art room, twelve classrooms, sanitary facilities and a large auditorium with a seating capacity of approximately one thousand persons.

[6] The Ministry of Education recently added two classrooms to make room for a large number of grade nine students who were admitted in 2019.

As of the 2018-2019 academic year, there were 813 students enrolled with a staff complement of forty-five (45) teachers, including a guidance counselor and a school nurse.