On the 1st April, 1956, Carmel School, the known as St. Mary’s Carmel School, was started at 19, Deshapriya Park Road, Kolkata- 26. It began as a primary school consisting of the Upper and Lower Kindergarten, and classes 1- 1V with English and Bengali as medium of instruction the need for more classrooms necessitated expansion and classes V upwards were shifted to 41, Gariahat Road (South). In 1969 the school was recognized as a Higher Secondary School. It is now known as Carmel High School. In 1970 the first batch of Secondary students were sent up.