Mount Carmel High School, Gandhinagar

Mount Carmel High School is a Roman Catholic school in Gandhinagar, the capital of Gujarat, India.

When Gandhinagar, a planned city, was built, the Jesuits and Apostolic Carmelites were asked to start a school by the government. Xavier-Carmel started in June 1970 as a co-educational institution. Co-principals Father Charles Gomes S.J. and Sister Loyola A.C. oversaw the two component schools.

The Education Minister inaugurated Xavier-Carmel on June 15, 1970 in the Government School Building in Sector 20. The influx of students forced the construction of the ground floor of Mt. Carmel in Sector 21 in 1979. The primary school of the joint Xavier-Carmel School began functioning there, while the high school continued in Sector 20.

The school in Sector 21, unlike its sister schools, has octagonal class rooms, designed by the famous architect Hasmukh Patel. He planned small garden plots in the passages inside the school in areas open to the sky. However, these plots had to be paved over and the spaces open to the sky had to be enclosed with glass.

Sister Lira Morais A.C. was the last co-principal of the Xavier-Carmel High School. She had taken over from Sister Maria Rosa, who had succeeded Sister Loyola. As the school kept growing, there was a need to separate the two schools; in June 1983 that Mount Carmel Primary School began separate operations with one section of instruction in English and two in Gujarati. Due to space constraints, additional classrooms were built on the ground floor and then the first floor was built. It was only in 1986 when the primary school students in Mt. Carmel reached Standard VIII that the co-principal with one sister who was on the high school staff in the joint Xavier-Carmel High School officially shifted to the separated Mount Carmel High School. In 1989 the first batch of Standard X students appeared for the board examination.

External links

• Alumni Page

Coordinates: 23°13′41″N 72°39′54″E / 23.2281°N 72.6649°E / 23.2281; 72.6649