The secondary school was founded by
alumni and teaching staff from
Yenching University in
Peking after the campus and some alumni was forced to incorporate in
Peking University by
Mao Zedong's
Chinese Communist Party in 1952. The founders hoped that the school would restore to the university someday. In 1977, they reused an old building of South Sok Uk Government Primary School () and established a secondary school in
So Uk Estate. They named it Yenching College. In September 2000, it was moved to current premises in Nga Ying Chau, adjacent to
Villa Esplanada. The old campus was passed to
Vocational Training Council School of Business and Information Systems (職業訓練局工商資訊學院), namely nowadays
Vocational Training Council Youth College (). ==References==