The school was founded in 1993 by Hakim Abdul Hameed, a Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri awardee and Saiyid Hamid who was a member of Indian Administrative Service and also served as the Vice Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University. It is a Senior Secondary School preparing students for both All India Secondary School Examination and All India Senior School Certificate Examination. In class 11 and 12, students have to choose one of 5 streams: Non-Medical, Medical, Commerce with Maths, Commerce without Maths or Humanities. The school is run by the Hamdard Education Society, whose secretary is Syed Samar Hamid.
