[1] The school is located in Nyakasura, off the Fort Portal-Bundibugyo Road, approximately 6.5 kilometres (4.0 mi), by road, north-west of the central business district of Fort Portal.

[2] The school was founded by Scotsman Ernest Ebohard Calwell, a retired naval officer, in 1926.

Calwell was a teacher at King's College Budo when he fell out with the headmaster there.

There were two students from Toro Kingdom at Buddo at that time, by the names of Komwiswa and Byara.

Rukirabasaija Daudi Kasagama Kyebambe III showed the Calwell three sites, out of which he selected Nyakasura.