It was built in (1292 Ah / 1876 ad) on land owned by the Latin Patriarchate, and opened in (1295 Ah) with a staff of five teachers and ( 150) students. Then it opened branches in Jaffa in (1300 Ah / 1882 ad), in Haifa in (1302 Ah / 1884 ad) and in Bethlehem and Nazareth in (1311 Ah / 1893 ad). Among the famous people who studied there in the late secular era, according to the records of the Sharia court: the monk Grace Ould Tannous Maronite from Lebanon and the Lebanese sarufim Victor t (Did the AL-furair school in Jerusalem continue its educational career during the last years of the Ottoman era, and was interested in teaching Arabic, French and English languages in addition to other scientific subjects when the British forces occupied the city of Jerusalem in December  As a result of the efforts of the school administration and the parents, the British forces evacuated the school after many months, and its administration succeeded in resuming its educational career. During the British Mandate era, the AL-furair school witnessed a great development, where many of the children of Jerusalem and Palestine joined it, and the school also witnessed another qualitative leap during the Jordanian era, especially after the closure of many schools in the western part of the city after the occupation in 1948, and the migration of thousands of residents of the city to the eastern part, and the search for alternative schools to educate their children there, and the AL-furair school was among the first of those schools that met the needs of parents. Hundreds of students, especially from the Old Town and its surroundings, enrolled to study at the AL-freer school during that period. It was taught in French, English, Arabic and the British GCE certificate system, and later the Jordanian curriculum was adopted at the school. Al-furair school continued its educational mission after the Israeli occupation in 1967, where it accommodated more students in its main building near Bab al-Jadeed, and with the increase in student numbers, the school rented a building in Beit Hanina  In the nineties of the last century, a new Al-farir school was built in Beit Hanina and equipped with the latest modern educational means, where students were transferred to it from the rented building. Hundreds of students have studied and graduated from the freer school since its foundation until now, including those whose names have shone in the fields of politics, literature, science, economics, education, medicine, engineering, law, commerce and tourism, and famous people who studied there in the late Ottoman era, according to the records of the Sharia court, the monk Grace Ould Tannous Maroni from Lebanon, and the Lebanese sarufim Victor also prominent among the Palestinians who studied there were: Dr. Yitzhak Musa al-Husseini, lawyer Henry Kennan, ambassador Afif Safia, Bernard Sabella, Manuel Hassassian and others .