The Lower Sorbian High school was founded as Sorbian Secondary Schoolon 1st September 1952. On initiative of Dr. Frido Mětšk 76 pupils as well as 8 teachers came to Cottbus from the Upper Sorbian Bautzen. They learned and lived in the building of the former teacher seminar in the Sielower road. The first age group still passed the examinations of the Upper Sorbian General Certificate of Education (GCE) in 1954.

From the first moment the Sorbian culture and traditions were deeply ingrained in school life. Already the first age group of pupils performed cultural programs in Cottbus. At school a choir and a dancegroup were founded. At the beginning of the 60s partnership relations with schools in Poland and Czechoslovakia were developed. The first sport event organized together took place in 1967.

In 1959 the Sorbian Secondary school became the Sorbian Extended High School. In 1974 the honourific title “Marjana Domaškojc” was given to the school . The students were taught in all subjects every other extended high school had. In addition they had to write GCE examinations in the Sorbian language as well.

In 1989 the school was a two-shared extended high school consisting of grades 9 to 12 having additional lessons in the subject Sorbian. In the school year 1990/91 two 7th classes were admitted which marks the beginning of today's structure of higher education at school.

In 1992 three 7th classes were formed for the first time and the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany (KMK) decided to acknowledge Sorbian as the 2nd foreign language. In June 1997 the first students, who had come to our high school from the 7th class, passed the A-level exams. Since 1998/99 the Lower Sorbian High School has always had at least three classes in one age group. Since 2000 there has been a legal regulation for schools with special Sorbian/ Wendish character deciding about the inner and outer organization of our Sorbian/ Wendish school.