Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya, Narendrapur, Kolkata is an entirely residential school founded in the year 1958 on the ideals of Man making and Character building, enunciated by Swami Vivekananda. The school is affiliated to the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education and West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education. About 875 students are studying here from classes V to XII. In classes XI and XII, students can study only in science stream. The entire Vidyalaya is divided into two sections, Junior Section (for classes V to VII) and Senior Section for students of classes VIII to XII. Students live in about 10 hostels which are named after the monastic disciples of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Deva, with 80 to 120 students living in each hostel.