The Banyan city Vadodara has always been a center of education for last several decades. The visionary Maharaja of Vadodara had set up a University in the year 1949 to cater to the educational requirements of the citizens of Vadodara. Though Vadodara had a world class university imparting education through English medium, the city hardly had any English medium school.  
 

In order to bridge this gap in school education and with the object of providing high quality education at affordable cost to the citizens of Vadodara, the Baroda Lions Club Education Trust (BLCET) was formed in the year 1961. The journey began with setting up of the first school in the centre of the city [at Bagikhana  a place where the horse-carts of the Maharaja were kept], fondly named as Baroda High School. His Highness, The Maharaja of Baroda, Lt. Col. Sir Fatehsingh Rao Gaekwad, very graciously provided the premises for the school. The students of the school have excelled in different fields over the years and have made outstanding contribution to the society,  The commitment of the then management was so profound that it attracted the attention of the management of ONGC (at that time a wing of the Government of India). Therefore, when ONGC decided to set up a base in Vadodara and construct its residential colony, it invited the Trust, in the year 1964, for setting up a school within their campus.  This was the second full fledged school set up by the Trust.   

 

The growth of Vadodara, while being all around, moved on the Western Side (popularly known as Alkapuri area).  There were no English Medium Schools in that area.  The Trust therefore decided to set up yet another school and opened it for the service of the citizens of Vadodara in the year 1974.   Till then the Trust was having only English Medium Schools and was aimed at providing education to the Middle Income Groups.  The Trust felt an urgent need to bring about reform in (at that time  economically and educationally backward) Danteshwar area.  Due to nature of the area, no institution was willing to set up an educational institution in that area.  The Trust took the bold step in the year 1996 to put all its resources and efforts of its management team, for setting up yet another school primarily aimed to serve the need of lower income group of that area by starting a Gujarati Medium School.    Later on English Medium was also added to this  campus, as with the school being set up in that area, the entire demography of that area changed.  The Trust is proud to be one of the wheels for bringing about this change.  The Trust has not restricted its activity to the students who enroll, but has started a voluntary Sunday School for giving the non-school going children primarily of economically deprived strata an opportunity to  take basic education and  take them into the fold of formal education and completely fund their education.  The Trust is wedded to the concept that no child, who wishes to study, should be deprived merely because of financial constraints.