History

Cossipore St. Ninian’s High School for Girls was begun in the early twentieth century, by the Church of Scotland Women’s Mission. What later evolved into the school began as an orphanage in Bowbazar in 1906, which was really an institute that offered seven (educational) standards from “infants” through Class VI. It was called the Orphanage of Bowbazar. Twenty-three students, mostly girls and a few boys, attended, studying the usual fare for elementary classes: English, Literature, Arithmetic, History, Geography and Science. They also learned to do sewing or handiwork.

 The premises at 125 Bowbazar street were in many ways unsuitable ; the compound was small , there was no satisfactory means of separating the orphanage and Boarding school from the rest of the work and workers , and it was close to a noisy and crowded thoroughfare .   In May  1909 the orphanage was moved to its new quarters at 30 Barrackpore Trunk Road in Kolkata, and from that time onwards, it was known as the Church of Scotland Mission Board School. A new building , designed by Messrs. Mackintosh Burn & Co. , in conformity with Government Regulations ,  was erected ,  providing accommodation for about 70 boarders with bengali teachers and lady missionaries  in charge .  A year later the Cossipore CSN Boarding School was begun in this new  building with spacious grounds and airy rooms .

The school today is 109 years old , with classes from lower nursery till class X , caters to the poorer section of the society and has 22 girl child as boarders .