History
During the winter of 1878 a general meeting of parishioners endorsed the proposal to build a schoolhouse. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Pearman offered about a third of an acre of land for the site. The building began in 1880 and was completed in 1883. The first headmaster was E. C. Pfeiffer. Its first Rhodes Scholar was James Outerbridge (1941). Gail Graham was the first female headmaster. Freddie Evans is the first headmaster of African descent.
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