Economic developments and the construction of a railroad from Victoria Falls to Kimberley led the London Missionary Society to open the school.
The London Missionary Society left the school in 1956, in protest against the Bantu Education Act, which they found to be discriminatory against black South Africans.
[1] In the late 1980s provincial heritage site status was given to the empty shell of the abandoned Tiger Kloof Institute.
The remainder of Tiger Kloof's original property was returned through the land restitution process in 2004.
[2] Two future Presidents of Botswana, Seretse Khama and Quett Masire, began their studies there.