The school is run by the Diocesan Board of Education of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Islamabad-Rawalpindi.
[2] The school was opened in 1957 in the presbytery of St. Michael's Church on Mall Road, Peshawar Cantonment with fourteen boys who had passed Standard III from Presentation Convent School located next door to St. Michael's Church.
All three were Dutch citizens belonging to the Catholic order of Mill Hill Fathers (London).
Thyssen was at Burn Hall, Abbottabad and before the Great Partition, he had served in Kashmir.
Classes available at the time ranged from Prep to Standard V. Fr.Joseph Beemster from Holland joined the teaching staff around this time In 1962, the first batch of ten students sat for the Matriculation (SSC) Examination and the success rate was 100%.
In the same year, five of its students qualified for GCE 'O' Level of Cambridge University (three in First Division).
Michael Grant, an Irishman and the second principal of the school and the foundation stone laid by Lt. Gen. Altaf Qadir on 29 October 1963.
The fully equipped auditorium, library, squash courts, hall for indoor games, children's park and mini zoo are some of those additions.