Sunnyhill Road School was built in 1900 on land given by the family of Beriah Drew, Lord of the Manor of Leigham. It was the 444th school to be built by the London School Board, whose initials LSB can be seen in various motifs on the outside of the building together with the date of the year in which it was built. The school was originally designed to accommodate 450 juniors and 358 infants, a total of 808 pupils and the land and building cost just over 26,000. The school was the first major public building to be erected in Streatham in the opening year of the twentieth century. A large gathering of local dignitaries assembled in the school hall on Thursday November 9th when the new building was officially opened by the Rev. W. Copeland Bowie, Chairman of the Accommodation Committee of the London School Board. In 1903 an Evening Institute was established here teaching book keeping, cooking and shorthand among other subjects. In 1944, during WWII, the school was badly damaged by a V1 rocket in the war, but miraculously it was empty at the time and no one was seriously injured.