Dowal School was founded on April 10th, 1987, when the school was granted permission to operate by the Honduran Ministry of Education, under decree No 1356-EP. It was not until September 1st of that same year that the school first opened its doors to the public. The idea of founding Dowal School, however, was first conceived by Mrs. Irma Cristina Domínguez in 1975, immediately after she graduated from the now extinct Escuela Superior del Profesorado (currently Universidad Pedagógica Nacional Francisco Morazán.) At the time, Mrs. Cristina had already foreseen the creation of an innovative educational center that would totally change the face of the schooling system in the country, and she was not afraid to share such pioneering vision with her classmates in order to materialize the project. Unfortunately, the initiative proved to be too audacious for her colleagues and the enterprise came to a halt. In the mid 1980s, Mrs. Cristina attended the ILCE (Spanish acronym for Latin American Institute for Educational Communication) in Mexico City, where she studied towards the Master of Educational Technology. Upon graduation, she presented a draft project with the basis for the creation of a ground-breaking educational institution in Honduras. The idea had so much potential that, as a result, the project was immediately approved by the body of advisors of the Educational Technology department. Finally, by the end of 1985, Mrs. Cristina’s dream began to materialize as she, along with her husband at the time, Mr. John Walter Connor, contacted prominent architect Javier Crespo, who was entrusted the responsibility of designing a school compound that would fulfill the expectations and specifications of such visionary venture. 

In 1987, Dowal School began operating with a staff of only seven people. On the first day of classes, nineteen students had enrolled, eight of which completed their secondary studies at Dowal, graduating from High School in June of 1998. As a gesture of gratitude to its first registered students, the school’s authorities determined to emboss the children’s footprints and their names on a memorial monument located on the west entrance of the Preschool building.