St Angela’s Nguviu Girls High School was founded by the Catholic Church back in 1969. It was then known as St Ursula Boarding Primary, a girls school in Manyatta Constituency, Embu County.

It became St Angela’s Girls when a secondary school wing was established in 1973 with the first cohort of 68 sitting their Kenya Junior Secondary Examination (KJSE) in 1974. The institution was turned into a government school in 1976 with a harambee stream started by local coffee growers a year later.

However, the primary school wing was moved to its current site in 1986, which paved the way for a second, third and fourth stream to be incorporated in 1989 and 1995. Today, the school is an extra county institution and has over 600 girls under principal Esther Koome.