The immediate aim in building this school was to ease the pressure for places in St. John's Institution, which was rapidly expanding at the time as well as cater for the needs of the growing township. Its primary and secondary school are formally known today as Sekolah Kebangsaan La Salle Petaling Jaya and Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan La Salle Petaling Jaya.
The school was administered by the De La Salle Brothers until 1980 for primary and 1988 for secondary. Since then, the heads have been lay individuals appointed by the Ministry of Education in consultation with the De La Salle Brothers in Malaysia.
History
On 2 April 1956, Brother Lawrence Spitzig, who was then Director of St. John's took a historic step by applying for a piece of land in Petaling Jaya on which to erect a school run by Christian brothers. The vision at that time was to acquire a ten-acre site on which to erect a primary school, with a secondary school to follow later.
As the population grew so did the pressure for places in existing schools, so on 15 July 1959, Brother Lawrence made yet another request for permission to commence work on the construction of six classrooms (now known to all PJ Lasallians as the ‘Old Block’) to house primary classes which had launched La Salle PJ on the educational scene in January 1959. A new building completed in 2003 was to replace the Old Block.
Standing in place of the Old Block is a two-storey New Block. This building houses a total of 10 classes, 2 workshops, a large surau and the long-awaited computer labs.
The Primary School
Head Masters
Year service began
Year service ended
Name of Principal
1959
1959
Mr. Hew Weng Kong
1960
1962
Mr. Reggie Pereira
1962
1965
Reverend Brother Cronan Curran, FSC
1965
1972
Reverend Brother Alban Rozario, FSC
1972
1979
Reverend Brother Sebastian Leo, FSC
1979
1984
Mr. John Ng Soo Chai
1984
1999
Mr. Ng Cher Chai
1999
2001
Mdm. Yeoh Mee Ee
2002
2009
Mr. Yeo Sai Lim
2009
2014
Mr. Thillainathan S. Arumugam
2015
2017
Mdm. Teo Boon Hwa
2017
2019
Mdm. Noriah binti Mohammad
2019
2021
Mr. Tan Junhao
2021
2023
Mr. Zakaria
2023
Present
Mr. Gunalan Arumugam
FSC - PAPZ, the group name of the De La Salle Brothers.
FSC means [Latin: Fratres Scholarum Christianarum; French: Frères des écoles chrétiennes];English: Brothers of the Christian Schools]; a Roman Catholic religious congregation dedicated to education for all (the Last, the Least and the Lost) was founded in France by Saint Jean-Baptiste de La Salle and is now based in Rome.
