BRIEF HISTORY OF OUR SCHOOL
Girls Secondary Grammar School Gbagada, Bariga, Lagos Nigeria was founded by late Mrs Evangeline Adebayo Adelaja an Educator with Vision  for Sound Education for  ‘Girls’.  She was wife to Archdeacon Benaiah Adeleke Adelaja, the former Principal of Lagos Anglican Boys Grammar School, Bariga now renamed CMS Grammar School, Bariga, Lagos.

Mrs Adelaja was passionate about founding a ‘Girls Only’ School since there was none in the locality at the time. She convinced her husband into establishing an ‘All Girls Secondary School’  on a 25 acre expanse of land in Bariga, Lagos. The School was officially created on 27th January, 1964 with the exemplary first and pioneering principal, Mrs Victoria Abimbola Onafowokan (nee Ogunlesi). The Proprietress, Mrs Eva Adelaja specially requested later, that 25th of February, her birthday be adopted as our Founders Day.  On the Proprietress’ 60th birthday,  February 1987, the School was officially renamed in her honor.

Mrs Adelaja passed away in May 1991 at the age of 64. Both the first Principal and the Proprietress worked tirelessly hand in hand to bring basic amenities like electricity, pipe borne water, tarred roads into then very rural  Bariga area, which today is one of the landmark cities in Lagos. These two visioneers paved the way and opened Bariga up for economic buoyancy.

Mrs VA Onafowokan was transfered to Methodist Girls High School Yaba, Lagos in 1974 after 10 years of dedicated service to our School. She later died in 2008. Mrs Mogaji another powerful and Great Educator became the Second  Principal of the School. 

What’s Unique About Us? What Makes Us Special? Ours is a Legacy of selfless love, solid and well rooted and solidly established on Christ Our Lord. This is well reflected in our school anthem and songs.
We are a Christian school, Christ focused, Christ centred, Christ driven and directed. The school’s founders had a real sense of purpose and strong passion for learning are key, very vital and stressed by all our teachers from day one. We were held accountable every step of the way. We were taught to believe in God first and believe in self and others. “We are bright and gay, we are so special” We are encouraged to be our sisters’ keeper.

Students enjoy one another’s comradeship, supportive of one another in an educational setting. This is ‘our’ school where everyone is taught to dream big, the bar is set on high and everyone is unique and pushed to excel in academics, sports, extra curricular or co-curricular activities.