The former British School at Pembroke Dock was built in 1847 with further additions and alterations in 1855. It is marked on the first edtion Ordnance Survey 25" map, PE XXXIX. 8, of 1866. During Autumn 1901 the old British School was taken down and a larger school was built on site to accommodate a greater number of children in the area (at nearby Albion Square School, children of the higher grade were taught at the schoolroom of Albion Square Chapel). The new school at Meyrick Street was named Coronation School and was designed by Messrs. George Morgan and Son (Carmarthen). The contractor was Mr. C. Young of Gwyther Street, and the cost was a little over £9,000. During the erection of the school, the girls and infants were taught at Wesley and Meyrick Street Congregational Sunday schools.

The new Coronation School was opened on 4 May 1904 by Miss Grace Smith, daughter of Mr. William Smith, chairman of the Pembroke Borough Education Committee. The school took the boys from the former Albion Square School which then became a girls and infants school. Coronation School was described in 1905 by Elizabeth Peters as: 'one of the finest, if not the finest, school in the Principality; and being the most imposing structure in the town, it is much to be regretted that it is not in a more prominent position.' On the opening day, a procession of children and teacher, led by a temperance band, marched to Meyrick Street where they were presented with round tins of chocolate which bore a portrait of the King. In 1947 it became the Secondary School in Pembroke Dock.

Sources: Elizabeth Peters, The History of Pembroke Dock, Second Edition (Commemorative Pembroke Dock Bicentenary Edition), pp,123.25; John Hogg, Lost in Time: Forgotten features of Pembroke and Pembroke Dock (Llandysul: Gwasg Gomer, 2010), p.145.