The school was established and began teaching in 1956. In January 1960, the President of the South China Union Mission, EL Longway, reported that funds had been collected and were available for a new school to be built at Tai Po, at a projected cost of about HK$200,000. This was the first middle school ever to be established by any organization in the old market town of Tai Po. Tai Po was one of the first places where church evangelism was conducted in the early days, shortly after the pioneers established the Adventist church in Hong Kong. When the construction of the school began, the Tai Po church had grown to about 70 members.
Facilities
All classrooms are air-conditioned with Internet access and digital projectors. There is a 300-square-metre library, a Physical Fitness Centre, a hall, a science (MML) Laboratory, a design (MML) Room, a campus TV station, four science laboratories, two computer rooms, a geography room, a music room, a home economics room, an art room, a Multi-Media Learning Centre, a Youth Centre and an elevator.
^Longway, E. L. (September 1959). "Steady Progress in the Hong Kong-Macao Mission"(PDF). Far Eastern Division Outlook. 45 (9). Singapore: Far Eastern Division of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists: 11. Retrieved 21 May 2011.
^Facilities. Tai Po Sam Yuk Secondary School. Retrieved 2009-07-24