The Lodge School had its beginnings in a bequest made by Sir Christopher Codrington who had two estates on the island.

The Codrington experiment was to baptise and instruct in Christian education which was greeted with much suspicion by other Barbadian slave owners in the 18th century.

The bequest, Codrington Foundation School, was established with the purpose of educating boys who could be subsequently trained in "the study and practice of divinity, physic and chirurgery" there and at other seminaries in the region.

In History of Barbados its author Robert Hermann Schomburgk gives an early account of Codrington College on pages 111–123.

Earlier in 1775, the school was closed as a result of financial difficulties with the Codrington estates and it was not until 1789 that it was able to open again, continuing in a precarious manner with a succession of Headmasters, such that by the middle of the last decade of the 18th century it was not flourishing.

Richard Rawle was appointed as Principal of Codrington College and the training of elementary school teachers was undertaken.

An Education Commission established by Bishop Mitchinson secured an affiliation of Codrington College to Durham University.

The school Arms and Crest were designed by Mrs Evan Sealy, wife of a former rector of St John in conjunction with Mr Emtage in the first decade of the 20th century.

The coat of arms has a white field, indicative of purity and uprightness; a black and fess, hinting that the qualities signified by the field would be strenuously defended; and finally three Maltese crosses, the device of St John the Apostle and the Knights Templar of the same name.

The fess and white field were adopted from the arms of Codrington College, the lions of the latter being replaced by Maltese crosses [3] When Mr Emtage resigned in 1931, the school could hardly be recognised as the one he took over in 1899.

In 1935 the Memorial Hall was completed, partly to accommodate the increased number of boarders on the first floor, but also to provide for more classrooms.

The Memorial Hall was built from funds raised almost exclusively by Old Boys in honour of former pupils who died in the First World War.

This shortcoming was rectified in late 1903 when the then Headmaster of The Lodge, Mr. O. Emptage considered that the psychological moment had arrived and he approached the science master, an officer at the time with the Barbados Volunteer Force, with the suggestion to develop, either a regular Cadet Company or at least a Drill Squad.

In the first term of 1904 the attempt proved so successful that it was decided that a Cadet Company, with proper military establishment be formed.

Much of the historical information above is courtesy of P. D. Frost's kind copy of F. A. Hoyos, Two Hundred Years: A History of the Lodge School, 1745–1945, published by the Barbados Advocate, as well as B.

[7] The Rolls of Honour[8] commemorating the school's war dead are on two bronze plaques on either side of the entrance to the Memorial Hall, the portal of which has the word Remember engraved.

The Lodge School Old Boys' Association raised funds over several years to have these memorials to their fallen comrades installed and consecrated in 1965.

Approximately 95,000 sq ft of land on the south eastern boundary of the compound has been purchased from Guinea Estates Limited to accommodate the new building.