 Saint Martin's was originally established in 1948 by the Dominican Sisters of St Catherine of Siena based in King William's Town, South Africa as an independent girls' school, Blessed Martin in the Fields at Stoke Lodge, Stoke Golding.This branch of the Dominican order was founded in 1877 by a group of women from Augsburg in Germany.Although now a state funded Catholic academy, the school grounds and buildings are still owned by the Dominicans.