After the country's liberation from the Japanese colonial rule, President Kim Il Sung suggested building the school in Pyongyang for the children of revolutionary martyrs.

On October 12, Juche 36 (1947), Kim Il Sung attended the opening ceremony of the school together with anti-Japanese war hero Kim Jong Suk.

Going round the children's rooms one after another, he warmly embraced the orphans who were in tearful joy.

At that time, Kim Jong Suk told them Kim Il Sung would take care of them, instead of their fathers.

When leaving the school, Kim Il Sung said he would come to the school on holidays to enjoy the days with orphaned children.

Later, he visited the school on each holiday and showed deep loving care for them.

Kim Il Sung's love for the children of the school was creditably carried forward by General Secretary Kim Jong Il.

When visiting the school on January 2, 1998, Kim Jong Il was very pleased to see the spacious bedrooms, which were remodeled at his instruction he gave during his visit to the school a year before.

He called for setting up ladders at both sides of the double-storied beds to avoid inconvenience for the children.

In January 2012, the respected Marshal Kim Jong Un visited the school and congratulated its teachers and students on the lunar New Year's Day

He said that the President and leader Kim Jong Il had paid deep attention to the children of the school to train them as a backbone of the revolution, always thinking of them.

He then saw to it that statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il were erected at the school.

A ceremony of unveiling the statues was held at the school on the occasion of the Day of the Shining Star (Feb. 16, 2013), birthday of Kim Jong Il.