The school was founded on 14 January 1887 as a Parish School attached to the St. Paul’s Church of Milagiriya with only 24 students and 4 teachers. The first principal of the school was Mrs Stella Coban. In the early years of the legendary  pathway of the school the majority of the students belonged to the Burger community and the medium of education was English. Later until 1957 the School  had given education in all Sinhala, Tamil and English mediums.