Harrow Beijing opened its Anzhen Xili campus in 2005 as an Upper School for students from Year 7 and above. From a modest start of 48 families in 2005, the school quickly grew to 150 students in 2006.

In 2008 Harrow Beijing established its Lower School at Grassetown, in the north east of the city. In the same year, the House system was introduced modelled on the Houses found at Harrow School London. There were initially four Houses across both campuses (Ju Ching, Churchill, Kong Zi and Currie). In 2009 to help increase space in the fast growing Anzhen Xili campus, Year 7 was relocated to Grassetown and the phases of Prep (Years 5-7) and Pre Prep (Nursery –Year 4) were established.

In 2011 the school broke ground at its new site in Hegezhuang and the two-year build of its modern, state of the art facility begun. In 2012 due to the ever-expanding student population, two new Houses were formed, John Lyon and Song Qing Ling, to bring the total to the now familiar six Houses.

On the 8th of April 2013 the whole school came together for the first time on the one campus and quickly turned the empty buildings into a living and breathing school full of learning, challenge and fun. In 2014 the Prep Phase joined the Upper School as Years 6-8 bringing it into line with the other Harrow International Schools.

To extend our outstanding education to the wider Beijing population, the school reacquired its original campus in Anzhen Xili, re-designed and transformed it into a dedicated world-class City Campus for young pupils for 2-6 years old in August 2018.

With Leadership for a better world and the Six Leadership Attributes at the heart of the Harrow Beijing holistic approach to education, students today still strive by heart and brain and sinew to become leaders whose names will live on, no longer just in Britain but now also in the world at large.