Holy Child education worldwide is an initiative by the Society of the Holy Child Jesus at providing qualitative education in a high moral and academic environment proposed to uplift the performance of girls at primary, secondary and tertiary education levels. Holy Child education is unique by its very nature. The Society of the Holy Child Jesus, founded by Rev. Mother Cornelia in 1846 in England, was then well known all over the world for its educational program for girls. Cornelia Connelly's approach to effective education stresses on charisma, academic excellence and development of the 'whole child' – mind, heart and spirit and these values are evident today in all Holy Child Schools across the globe. Our founders' view that the girls should be educated to 'meet the wants of the age', remain as true as it ever was. ​

Situated on a four acre plot of land at a strategic corner of south-west ikoyi, in ojo street off keffi street, Holy Child college with its well laid out lawns laced with palm trees and flowers has a serene atmosphere which is very conducive for learning. Our college began with two classes of 15 girls each and 4 Nuns as full time teachers. To increase the number of students, a new class was admitted each year. By the time the foundation set had completed the six year program, the students population had increased from 30 to 200 and that was in 1950. The foundation students of Holy Child College mostly came from Aguda (Yoruba meaning of catholic Lagosians),  Old Lagos families like the Trezie’s Da Rocha, Vera Cruz, Ferera, Soares and Pinheiro,Pedro as well as other prominent Nigerian families like Apena, Akran, Alakija, Nwosu and Okoli. In the year 1972 the government took over mission schools in Nigeria, Holy child college was one of the schools that was taken over by Nigerian Government   However, the college was returned back to the catholic mission in the year 2001. And since then the school has been run by the catholic mission giving it unequalled and undisputed standard