The school was established in 1991 platooning at a school called Intwasahlobo primary since the school didn’t have its own buildings. The co-founders of the school were Ms. Tsoeu and Ms. Matsabisa and some other 3 teachers. The school operated in that school up until it was moved to the temporal structures at Town-two under the principal ship of Ms. Adelaid Matsabisa until 2016 when she retired. The school grew in numbers since more and more people started to know about the school and this resulted to the extension of the curriculum up to grade 9.  In the year 2008, the school moved to the deserted buildings at H-Section where it is still located. The school is declared a quintile three school simply because it is based in a poverty stricken area where most of the people are not working. The department therefore subsidizes every learner undergoing schooling at Hopolang. Hopolang Combined School is about 20 km from the district office that is Metropole East in the Kuils River region under circuit 5.

The community within which Hopolang is based is predominantly Xhosa speaking. The school is using WCED transport scheme to transport learners to and from school from all over Khayelitsha and the surrounding townships. The uniqueness of the school is brought by the fact that it is the only primary school that offers Sesotho as a subject in the whole of Khayelitsha and is therefore, one of the only two primary schools in the whole of the Western Cape. Hopolang is a dual medium school where the language of teaching and learning is English in the Intersen and Sesotho in the foundation phase.  Due to the school’s broader vision, an English home language class has been introduced from the lower grades until all the grades have an English class.