华文名：圣斯德望学校

History

St. Stephen’s School is one of the six Christian Brothers’ Schools of the De La Salle Order in Singapore. The school was first envisioned by Rev Brother Stephen, who saw, amidst the coconut palm trees and the rubber estates in the eastern part of the island, a school to cater to the growing number of boys in the community.

In 1953, Rev Brother Lawrence Robles, Brother Director of St Patrick’s School, purchased a piece of land bounded by Siglap View, La Salle Street and Siglap Avenue to build a primary and feeder school for St Patrick’s. The construction of the school building began in 1956 and was completed the following year. The new school was named St Stephen’s School after Rev Brother Stephen, whose patron saint, St Stephen, was the first martyr of Christianity.

On 7 May 1957, the Right Rev Michael Olcomendy, Archbishop of Singapore, blessed St Stephen’s School. The school was officially opened in September that year.

In the first few decades of the school, St. Stephen’s attracted many Catholic boys living in the east. Over the years, as the enrolment grew, the physical facilities of St. Stephen’s School became increasingly inadequate. The old school building was demolished in 1998 to make way for a new one that would be equipped with all the standard facilities of a primary school. In 2001, students and staff began the year in the newly built school building. The school became single-session in 2003 and was officially opened on 26 September 2006.