Type Girls School Principal Sr. Jennifer Campus Campus tour Motto 'Gyan Prem' | Established 18 January 1923 Grades 1–12 Phone 079 2658 8360 Founded 18 January 1923 | |
Affiliations Apostolic Carmel Society Address Navrangpura, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380009 | ||
Mount Carmel High School, Ahmedabad, India, is one of the oldest convent schools in Gujarat, India. The school was founded in Ahmedabad on 18 January 1923, under the guidance of three sisters of Mount Carmel namely Mercedes, Marianne and Angelica.
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History
The school was founded by Sisters of the Apostolic Society of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, an Indian order based in Mangalore. They started with four classes, totalling 20 students, in Mirzapur area of Ahmedabad. In 1924 the strength of the school rose to 110 students. The building at Mirzapur soon proved too small to accommodate all students. The school location has changed several times owing to its expansion to include more students. It shifted to Shahibag in 1935, then to Ellisbridge and eventually to Navrangpura area in 1938. On 25 April 1938 the land at Navrangpura was handed over to Sr. Carola. On 21 December, Her Excellence Lady Lumely inaugurated the school. In 1948 the school celebrated its Silver Jubilee. Subsequently it celebrated its golden jubilee in 1973 and diamond jubilee in the year 1983.
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In June 1935 Mount Carmel re-opened in a large house in Shahibaug but even this proved too small to house the 700 pupils. The school moved to the Ellis Bridge area into a building owned by Mr. Bhulabhai on the banks of Sabarmati river. By 1949 the growing numbers in the primary forced the school to take ‘Sunbeama’ on rent, where, on 1 March 1952, the school started for Std. I to III and KG. In 1953 a new block ‘Carmelita’ was added at Navrangpura by Sr. Electa. Sr. Fidela added a second floor to it in 1960 (now the residence of the sisters). The Annex block, an extension of the main building, was put up by Sr. Zena in 1958. Sr. Bernard got the third floor built in 1963, which afforded enough room to run parallel mediums - English and Gujarati. The swelling numbers necessitated the creation of Carmel Cote in 1964 on the banks of the River Sabarmati, which educated the children of the primary department - KG - 4th. In 1992 the Higher Secondary section was built on pillars. Currently, the school runs in two parts: primary section at Khanpur and then onward at Navrangpura.