About

Mount Carmel has its inception as long back in the years 1934 intended for education of girls. An era when women education was not so popular. The founders of this vidhyalaya are the Carmelite Sisters of St. Teresa, a woman religious congregation started by Mother Teresa of St.Rose of Lima. The school, started in Kanjikuzhy in the outskirts of Kottyam Town, had a humble beginning with 15 students and 3 teachers under the leadership of Mother Claire,. The first Bishop of the Diocese of Vijayapuram Dr. Bonaventura Arana OCD of happy memory rendered all support and blessings for this noble Endeavor. Along with Mother Claire Rev.Sisters Aloysius, Dennis, Ananciata, Stanislaus and Mother Gabriel were the pioneer co-workers of the school.

It was in 1947 when India freed herself from the foreign rule that Mount Carmel was elevated to the status of a High School. Now in 2007 when our country celebrates the 60th year of Independence, Mount Carmel also gloriously celebrates the Diamond Jubilee of the school becoming a High School. The school is under the Corporate Educational Agency of the Diocese of Vijayapuram.

The Institute of the Carmelite Sisters of St. Teresa (C.S.S.T) was founded in 1887 by Mother Teresa of St. Rose of Lima ( a resident of Chennai) in the town of Ernakulam in Kerala.

It was a time when the vast majority of people were living in squalor and misery, and the poor were compelled to beg on the streets to earn a living. A caste-ridden society was the order of the day. An educationalist with a spiritual and social thrust and great zeal, Mother Teresa was convinced that all human beings are children of God, with right to live in dignity.

With the first foundation, St. Teresa’s Convent , Ernakulam, she started a school where all types of students irrespective of their social and financial status, were admitted. In the short span of her life as Founder (1887-1902), she also set up an orphanage for the poor whom society discarded and even personality nursed the sick inmates during the epidemics of the time. A dispensary, Industrial school for the poor and a Home for the Aged poor were also started. She was a pace-setter, who visited even the prison and attended to the spiritual needs of the prisoners. She brought about liberation from the chains of castes and poverty.

Imbued by her spirit the Carmelite Sisters of St. Teresa serve in the field of education, social and health action.