The congregation of the La Salle Brothers was found in France in 1680 by St. John Baptist de La Salle.

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The founder saw the need to provide education to the poor because the schools to the poor because the schools at the time were only for the rich.

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In 1852, the first group of La Salle Brothers arrived in Penang in Malays where they established their first school, St. Xavier's Institution.

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The mission of these Institutes are to give a human and spiritual Christian education to the young, especially the poor. We now have 32 La Salle schools in Peninsular Malaysia and 12 associated schools in Sabah and Sarawak.