In 1895, the York School Board leased the Victoria Bar Primitive Methodist Connexion mission room on Nunnery Lane, for the education of 150 children.

In August 1896, this was replaced by the newly built Scarcroft Road Board School, at the north-eastern end of Micklegate Stray.

After World War II, the senior section ceased accepting girls, and the building was divided between Scarcroft County Primary School and Scarcroft Secondary Modern Boys School.

[1] The building was designed by Walter Brierley, and Nikolaus Pevsner describes it as "his masterpiece", with "one of the most striking and original elevations in York".

[4] The playground walls, gates and railings, also designed by Brierley, were grade II listed in 1997.