History

History

St.Capitanio Girls’ Higher Secondary School is situated on a small hillock, 55 k.m. north of Jalpaiguri, at the border of Bhutan and West Bengal. It is surrounded by tea estates. The people of this area are mostly of scheduled caste and scheduled tribe belonging to the labour class of the tea estates. They are economically and educationally backward.

St.Capitanio Girls’ Higher Secondary School is run by the Society of the “Sisters of Charity of Sts. Bartolomea Capitanio and Vincenza Gerosa’’

The sisters arrived from Italy in 1860 at Krishnagar,West Bengal.They work in different parts of India and are engaged in running  Schools , Hospitals, Orphanages, colleges, industrial schools and the homes for the elderly and sick .

On 29th March 1949, at the request of the Bishop of Dinajpur, Rt. Rev. Anselm, and as a response to the invitation of the PIME priests who were already working at Nagrakata (West Bengal) to begin a school for the girl children of the tea garden labourers the Sisters of Charity arrived in Nagrakata. In the same year a Primary school and hostel were opened. In the year 1952 the school was recognized by the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education as a Junior High School and in 1963 as a High School. In 2005 it was upgraded to a Higher Secondary School with Arts stream and in 2014 Science stream was introduced. In 2006 December at the request of ‘Sarva Shiksha Mission’ a hostel known as ‘Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya’ (KGBV) was opened for 50 poor girl students of classes V – VIII and in 2010 the SSM of Jalpaiguri helped to have the KGBV hostel extended into another block to accommodate 50 more students. Thus the number rose to 100 girls.