The school (Anawim Infant Jesus Academy/Secondary School) was registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission on 14 June 2010, with registration number 2134912, under the name Infant Jesus Academy. It was approved to operate Daycare, Nursery, Primary, and Secondary schools. Although the school’s population increased with its registration, it still had the charism of caring for the poor.
The fees were very low compared with those of other private schools in the locality. The classes grew up to Primary six and started participating in the common entrance examinations for Secondary schools.
The achievement of the school continued and on 18 March 2012, the school was accredited as one of the recognized Basic Education schools in the FCT by the Federal Capital Territory Administration Education Secretariat. With the accreditation, the school started offering pupils for Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).
More physical structures were developed at the Infant Jesus Academy. A storey building was constructed with the help of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) and Mrs Adanma Odefa, a staff member of the African Independent Television (AIT). The building was commissioned on 28 August 2013.
In 2015, the Secondary school section was detached from the Dabi campus and began activities in its permanent site, a 2.5-hectare land at Bako. The excellent management, administrative, and learning facilities provided by the Secondary school earned it full accreditation by the Quality Assurance Department of the FCTA Education Secretariat in June 2017.
The school is co-educational. It provides an attractive and conducive environment for good teaching and learning, free from the noisy and polluted urban environment. It has high discipline and good morals, administered and managed by the Missionary Sisters and Servants for the Poorest of the Poor (MSPP).
Infant Jesus Academy/Secondary School is equipped with standard science and computer laboratories, a well-stocked and maintained library, modern recreational and game facilities, and an uninterrupted water supply from two boreholes. The school is easily accessible from the Lokoja-Abuja Expressway.
The school has also enjoyed a good relationship with its sponsors, Hope for West Africa (HFWA) and the Nativity Parish, Timonium, Maryland, U.S.A. The grants from this group provided funds for physical structures including classrooms, science laboratories, a library, and a computer laboratory.
Another main donor to the development of the secondary school’s physical structure is Rita and Peter Caluori and their Switzerland friends. They provided funds for the construction of the Boys’ Berth in the secondary school compound where adolescent boys are accommodated and guided by the Brothers.
The Home is very grateful to these contributors for funding the self-sustaining project for education of the orphaned and vulnerable children. The population of the two schools is growing with the primary school pupils numbering about 158 while the secondary school students are 60.