The Gambia Senior Secondary School has its origins back in 1876 when the institution was founded on Dobson Street, Banjul, by the Wesleyan Mission. This followed the visit over 25 years earlier of Mother Anne-Marie Javouhey, first of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny, who visited Bathurst and planned a mission which came into being in 1849.In 1898 the school was re-opened as as the Methodist Boys' High School and in 1915 the Girls High School was opened in what is currently Albion Lower Basic.The girls' and boys' high schools were merged in 1959 to form the Gambia High School and moved to the junction at the main entry point into the Banjul capital and Box Bar Road.In 1994 the name was changed yet again to the Gambia Senior Secondary School when the Government's education policy was changed.