The co-educational school is operated by the Society of Jesus and provides education through to A-levels.

St. Paul's ranked 24th among the top 100 A-level schools in Zimbabwe in 2014 with all but one of 61 of its students who took the exam passing.

[1] During the Rhodesian Bush War, the school and associated Musami mission was the site of massacre of clergy on February 6, 1977.

[2] The unknown black guerrillas separated the white clergyman and teachers from the rest of the mission to a dirt road and opened fire with automatic weapons.

Dunstan Myerscough survived because he had instinctively dropped to the ground right after the guerrillas opened fire.