Hindu School, Kolkata is housed in an elegant 19th century building at College Street, the hub of intellectual activities of the city, in the humbling company of Presidency College, Calcutta University and Calcutta Medical College. Managed by the Government of West Bengal, Hindu School follows the syllabus ordained by the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education and West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education, the medium of instruction being Bengali. It is a boys only school and has classes I - XII.
Hindu School has a very rich history starting with it's inception on January 20th, 1817, as part of Hindu College. It is one of the oldest existing schools in India.
Hindu School is undoubtedly one of the major cornerstones in the history of institutional education in Bengal. Established by none less than Raja Ram Mohan Roy, David Hare, Radhakanta Deb among others, it stands as a phenomenal residue of the great renaissance that swept across Bengal during the eighteenth and nineteenth century. Hindu School and Presidency College are one of the few milestones that mark the daring which ushered a bunch of avant garde philanthropists and educationists of Bengal to carve out the prerogative of education from the hands of the British.
Basking in the glory of its great founders and an equally luminous alumni , Hindu School is still revered as an institution noted for churning out brilliant results, impeccable discipline and vintage values.