It was established in 1963 by the Society of Women of Southern Rhodesia under Lady Edna Caddick's supervision and was gifted to the AME Church in 1984.
Joshua Nkomo once praised the school for good education and high standard of sports offered.
The school has also won a number of the Merit awards from the ministry of Education, Sports, Arts and Culture 1992, 2006 and 2010 respectively.
The current head is an African Methodist Episcopal Church dean, Rev Dr Deborah Manyoba who has been there for more than one and a half decades.
It is owned by the African Methodist Episcopal Church, which was founded in 1816 by Richard Allen.