 The School opened in 1931 not only for the 80 boys it was designed, but with 84 boarders and 20-day boys.The headmaster felt the old name 'Kabete Boys Secondary School' was too clumsy and it was given the name 'Prince of Wales School' as a special case, the Prince of Wales feathers were to be inserted between the horns of a Royal Impala as the School badge, accompanied by the school motto "TO THE UTTERMOST".There was high enrolment eventually than initially anticipated and this called for new classrooms but there was a general shortage of cement and thus the first wooden classrooms were erected around 1938.