ABOUT SCHOOL

 HolyCross Higher Secondary School,situated on the banks of Meenachil River and facing the most blessed Holy Cross Forane Church, Cherpunkal, started as a ‘Kalari ’ on Midhunam 32,1092(1917) by Fr. Joseph Kochayankanal. The permission to start the ‘Kalari’ was granted by Shri. Harichandran Nampoothiri of Kumannoor Kallampally Illam. The Kalari was elevated to the status of an L.P School in 1919 and to a new type English middle School in 1946. It got the status of High School in 1982, when Fr.Francis Myladoor was the Vicar of the church.

Joseph Pallickaparambil inaugurated the newly built higher secondary block and the higher secondary course on 8th August 1998. It was started with 2 Science batches and a Commerce batch and Computer Science batch was started in 2002.The fountain head of our institution is our teaching faculty. We have a team of devoted teachers who are always ready to assist the students in their intellectual, physical, moral and spiritual development. We have a total strength of 384 students in eight batches. We are really proud of our disciplined, talented and committed student community here.

The school continued to retain its reputation of academic excellence with brilliant performance in 2012 Higher Secondary Examination. 99% of our students are eligible for higher studies this year. 21 students emerged victorious securing A+ grade in all subjects. We congratulate all the students and teachers.

With a view to involving the students in managing school affairs and to acquaint them with the principles of democracy and parliamentary system the school parliament functions smoothly. Elections are conducted in a democratic way as per the norms.