History
Sekolah Berasrama Penuh (SBP) is a cluster of elite boarding schools modeled after English Boarding School. Enrollment to these schools are subjected to pupils with excellent public examinations result (5A for UPSR and 7A for PMR) as well as in co-curricular activities. Effective from year 2007, admission to this school requires all eligible prospective students to seat aptitude test to be conducted by the school in order to determine students objectiveness and tendency towards learning process in boarding school that often associated with highly competitive environment. On the first January 1984, SMESH began fully operational and became the first ever boarding school built in Sabah and Sarawak. Mr. Mohd. Radzwan Mohd Yusof was the earliest person in charge with administration and students enrollment based at Bahagian Sekolah-sekolah, Jabatan Pendidikan Sabah. The first group of students were selected around Sabah and registered as Science student at Teacher Room on 26 May 1984. Meanwhile, the enrollment of National University of Malaysia (UKM) matriculation students began in 1986.
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