Carmel Convent School is an all-girl Catholic institution located in Kolkata

Kolkata

Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...

, India

India

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. The school aims at the education of the surrounding Catholic community and extends its service to members of other communities to the extent possible. The school stands for academic excellence, development of skills and character formation based on the love of God and the service of people as modelled on Jesus Christ.

The school is a Christian school established and administered by the Apostolic Carmel Education Society of West Bengal

West Bengal

West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...

 in the Roman Catholic Church

Roman Catholic Church

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. The school is under the religious jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Bishop in Kolkata.

It is an English medium school, with Bengali

Bengali language

Bengali or Bangla is an eastern Indo-Aryan language. It is native to the region of eastern South Asia known as Bengal, which comprises present day Bangladesh, the Indian state of West Bengal, and parts of the Indian states of Tripura and Assam. It is written with the Bengali script...

 and Hindi

Hindi

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 taught also.

History

On 1 April 1956, Carmel School, then known as St. Mary's Carmel School, was started at 19, Deshapriya Park Road, Kolkata. It began as a primary school consisting of the Upper and Lower Kindergarten and Classes I-IV, with English and Bengali as the medium of instruction. The need for more classrooms necessitated expansion and classes V upwards were shifted to 4, Gariahat Road South. In 1969 the school was recognised as a higher secondary school with two streams: Humanities and Science. It is now known as Carmel High School. In 1970, the first batch of Higher Secondary students was sent up.

In January 1975, the reorganised scheme of studies introduced by the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education

West Bengal Board of Secondary Education

The West Bengal Board of Secondary Education is the West Bengal state government administered autonomous examining authority for the Standard 10 examination of West Bengal, India. The examination for the 10th standard is called the Madhyamik Pariksha or secondary examination...

was adopted and a new curriculum was implemented. In 1996, Carmel High School was upgraded to Carmel Higher Secondary School with three streams: Science, Commerce and Arts.

Campuses

The school has two campuses:

• The primary section (Carmel Primary School, or CPS) is at 19, Deshapriya Park Road South, Kolkata.
• The higher section (Carmel High School, or CHS) is at 41, Gariahat Road South, Kolkata.

Classes between l-kindergarten and class IV are conducted in the junior section but with different timings, while classes between V and XII are conducted at the high school campus.

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