St. Saviour’s School was founded by the Colonial Church School Trust, established by St. Saviour’s Colonial Church Council at the inspiration of Conon R. A. Wright. The funds of the trust were provided through Frank Samuel Esq. of the United African Company Limited and by the Commercial firms established in Nigeria. The Pioneer Trustees were:

B.G Carman Esq.

J.P

W.H.F. Porter
Esq.

Sir John Veritykt

and

Rev. Canon R.A.
Wright. OBE, MA.

Opened on 23rd April, 1951 in the Railway Compound, St. Saviour’s School Ebute-Metta, popularly known as “SSSEB” cost £5,694 (Five thousand, six hundred and ninety four pounds) which was no doubt a whooping sum then. Her sister school, St. Saviour’s School, Ikoyi was opened six months later on 9^th of October 1951 on a lagoon site in Alexander Avenue.  That was built at an equally grand cost of £9,277 (Nine thousand, two hundred and seventy-seven pounds).

Each of the schools had four classrooms with a capacity for one hundred children. However, St. Saviour’s School Ebute-Metta opened with only thirty pupils with Mrs. Joan Myles being the Head Teacher while St. Saviour’s School Ikoyi was populated with about seven pupils.

 Over the years, St. Saviour’s School Ebute-Metta extended its capacity by constructing more classrooms, a computer room, a science laboratory, a nursery school, a well-equipped library and an art room. By 2015, the Diamond Jubilee building which consists of eight classrooms, a swimming pool, the music department were added to the number of learning infrastructure available.

The nursery school section was opened in the year 1999 with 8 classrooms.  As a result, the population of pupils has continued to grow over the years, from a paltry number of thirty in 1951 to the current number of four hundred and fifty-three(453) as of January 2019 with our pupils excelling academically within and outside the country as they continue to live up to the motto of the school which is “BEING THE BEST”.