History

It was towards the end of the 19th century, led by Sri Naryan Chandra Bhattacharyya, some locals of Serampore, Mahesh and Ballavpur approached Pandit Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar with a request to open a branch of the Metropolitan High School in Serampore. But Vidyasagar Mahasai advised them to set up a school in the town on their own. With his blessings came Mahesh Higher class English School with fifty six students in the year 1884. Later the school moved from Mahesh to Newgate street (present Rishi Bankim Sarani) and from there to Poffam House, the present Vidyasagar bhavan of the school building.In the 1930s the doors of the school were opened for the girls of the town willing to pursue higher education after primary level until Serampore Girls’ High School came up to shoulder the responsibility. During the war the school building also housed some classes of Serampore College.

This historical institution of academic excellence now stands on the threshold of the post-centenary golden jubilee celebration and there is no end to the journey that began in 1884.

Besides imparting school education par excellence to the students of the town and its adjoining places, which has earned the school “A-Grade Excellence” education from West Bengal Board of Secondary Education and West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education, The school has also played an important role in the town in creating mass awareness on different social and science related issues involving  the students and common people.

Several eminent alumni of the school evince her glorious heritage. Acharya Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya (former vice chancellor, Visvabharati University), Prof. Panchanan Singha (Principal, Asutosh College), Dr. Mohini Mohan Ghosh (ex-principal, City College), Dr. Basanta Kumar Samanta (eminent mathematician and ex-principal), Hooghly Mohosin College and Chandannagore Govt. College), Late Swami Gokulananda Maharaj (head, Rama Krishna Mission, Delhi) Dr. Mriganka Sekhar Singha, Dr. Gopal Das Nag(former minister, Govt. of West Bengal), Sahid Gopinath Saha (martyr), Sankariprasad Mukhopadhyay (freedom fighter), Amiya Mukhopadhyay (captain of Bengal Athletics), Saroj Chatterjee (goalkeeper, Mohan Bagan) are some of the many famous students of the school besides a great many academicians, teachers, scientists, technologists, doctors who have made valuable contribution in their respective fields and thus ensured the emergence of great nation.