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Holy Child School, Jalpaiguri

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The High School building view in HCS Campus

Holy Child School is the oldest known English-Medium School in the Jalpaiguri City. It has classes from Kindergarten, [Prep.],Class I up to Class XII and is affiliated to the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination, New Delhi. It is located at Shiristala Avenue on the Jalpaiguri-Siliguri Road leading to National Highway 31(D) which connects the city of Jalpaiguri with the rest of the country by road(s).

Origin

Holy Child School in Jalpaiguri was opened in February 1973. It is a girls' school where the boys are accommodated according to the need and decision of the governing body.

Nature

The school is an unaided Christian minority school. It includes classes from KG to XII.The medium of instruction is English with Bengali and Hindi being offered as second and third languages respectively. The course that is followed is the I.C.S.E 10-year course and from 2004 ISC science and commerce is introduced.