Our Story & Vision

Mount Carmel School, Dhupguri is a Catholic Institution founded in 1998 and is under the Management of the Discalced Carmelite Fathers (OCD) in the Diocese of Jalpaiguri. Mount Carmel School is a Learning house which has Christ as its central motivating force. It was founded and will remain a centre for educating and training pupils irrespective of religion, caste and colour. From the very beginning the education is characterized by thoroughness, high principles and freedom. The students are helped to grow in responsibility, self-reliance and human maturity so that they find meaning and purpose in their life and is inspired to live and work for the building up of a just and fraternal society. Hence the idea of service is set before the pupils who are trained to be concerned for others, to be aware of their needs and to make sacrifices when necessary, to share what they have with the less privileged.

In the year 1987 the diocese of Jalpaiguri purchased the present property of Mount Carmel School and started a primary school for the tribal children from the nearby teagardens. It was a residential school from its beginning. Meanwhile the Carmelite Fathers of the South Kerala Province (OCD order of discalced Carmelites) had begun their missionary endears in West Bengal. When Bishop James Toppo learned that the Carmelite Friars have opened their mission in the Kolkata Archdiocese, invitation was send to take up missions in his diocese. The Provincial Rev. Fr. Xavier Jayaraj OCD considered the matter as an obligation and sent Fr. Albert Peter OCD to discover the possibilities of setting up a Carmelite mission in Jalpaiguri diocese. After four days of journey from Kerala, Fr. Albert reached Dhupguri -The House of Light on 20th February 1998, to spread the true light of missionary aspect of Christ. The mission was officially inaugurated by Very Rev. Fr. Xavier Jayaraj, the Provincial in the presence of His Excellency Bishop James Toppo on 20th September 2001. Thus the primary school started by the diocesan priests came under the management of the Carmelite Fathers. In the following year Fr. Albert Peter OCD built a small primary school in the very same place of the present school to accommodate at least 60 to 70 students.

The present school buildings foundation stone was laid in 2001 and when the ground floor was ready for use the regular classes were shifted to the new building. On March 4th, 2009, the first floor of the school building was completed and the new school building was blessed by His Excellency Bishop Clement Tirkey, Bishop of Jalpaiguri Diocese and the school was officially inaugurated by Rev. Fr. Antony Mathias OCD, Provincial South Kerala Province of St. Joseph, thanks to the generous support of Manos Unidas, Spain and L’albero della Vita, Italy. The Education department of West Bengal issued NOC in faviour of Mount Carmel School, Dhupguri on 19th March 2015 and the School was affiliated to Council for Indian School Certificate Examinations, New Delhi on 16th April 2015 and the first batch of secondary students appeared for their board exams in the year 2016. In 2023 CISCE, New Delhi granted Permanent