K.E. Carmel School

About Us

K.E. Carmel School, Siliguri is a co-educational institution committed to providing quality education rooted in strong values and discipline, in a safe and supportive environment.

School Life

A look at assemblies, classroom moments, and daily campus life.

Large school assembly in the campus courtyard — Assembly

Students gathered in a classroom or hall for a prayer session — Prayer gathering

Students standing in a corridor with teachers in the background — Campus line-up

Students enjoying school life on campus — Student life

About Us

K.E. Carmel Group of Schools, West Bengal belongs to the Christian Catholic Religious Congregation of Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (C.M.I) Fathers. It is solely owned and managed by C.M.I Dharmanivas Educational Trust (DET) and C.M.I. Dharmaniketan Educational Trust (Eastern Region) under the aegis of Dharmaniketan C.M.I Sub Region, West Bengal of C.M.I St. Joseph’s Province, Trivandrum, Kerala, India. It draws inspiration from Saint Kuriakose Elias Chavara (1805-71), a Saint and Social Reformer of the 19th Century in the state of Kerala, India. He is one of the founders of the C.M.I Congregation, which is the first Catholic Religious Congregation for men in India. Following his vision, C.M.I Congregation has established more than 700 educational institutions all over India and abroad. The most reputed universities, colleges, schools and other educational institutions which are run by C.M.I Congregation in India always stand forth in excellence. The vision of education provided by C.M.I congregation focuses exclusively on the integral development of rural areas of India by providing quality education. K. E. Carmel Group, with this noble vision, flourishes with eight educational institutions in the state of West Bengal. The group is approved as a Minority Educational Institution as F.No.1525 of 2006-143/8. It imparts instructions to students from Nursery to class XII under CISCE curriculum, New Delhi, India.

Being aware that educational process is the most important human resource development, we open our institutions to all, irrespective of sex, caste, colour or faith. We usually prefer Catholics as members of our Minority Community and give them religious formation based on the values of Gospel while others are provided with moral and spiritual formation. We organize various curricular and co-curricular activities for the integral development of our students,

The CMI Missionary Fathers from Kerala (St. Joseph’s Province, Trivandrum) invest their best for the excellent formation of the next generation as our contribution towards the national development. Through our educational institutions we respond to the national need o preparing the youth to be socially responsible so that India becomes a supreme power house by the year 2030. Hence, we select and train committed teachers, who stand by our students in their physical, intellectual, moral, cultural, aesthetic, emotional, spiritual and skill developments. We have been nurturing them with our rich experience in education for the past 189 years upholding the age-old spiritual traditions of India and of the St. Thomas Christians of Apostolic origin.

Hence, we pay attention in forming leaders who are intellectually competent, spiritually mature, morally upright, psychologically integrated, physically healthy, socially acceptable and God-loving who will champion the cause of justice love, truth and peace, and who are ever open to further growth. The secret of our success in education is a community teachers who are committed to their vocation, professionally competent, morally upright, just and humane in dealings and who grow with the nation in the right vision of development. We aspire towards creating a just an humane society w ere dignity o a person is respected unjust social structures are challenged, our cultural heritage of ahimsa, secularism, religious harmony and national integration are to field and where the poor and marginalized are specially attended to.

Our Motto

Everyone has received a Divine Call to devote oneself for the welfare of the society. (Jeremiah 1:10). Based on this ideal, K.E. Carmel School has its motto ‘To Plant and Nurture”. K.E.C.S. stands for ‘value laden Kinship, Excellence and Character’. Education is a process in which teachers, parents and students work together t o have the delicate seed of divine wisdom planted in the young minds and to nurture its spontaneous growth by providing an appropriate atmosphere of concentration, dedication and hard work. To educate is not merely to develop and improve an individual but to influence the family and society of which one is a member. It is his or her divine call to work towards the creation of a New Heaven and Earth by spreading happiness, peace, joy and love all around. We develop ands to he p, Lips to smile and Words to cheer up others.

Affiliation

Affiliated to C.I.S.C.E./ISC (New Delhi)
Registration No. WB449

C.I.S.C.E. (New Delhi) Curriculum
Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations

The group is approved as a Minority Educational Institution under F.No.1525 of 2006-143/8.

School History

K.E. Carmel School, Siliguri is part of the K.E. Carmel Group of Schools, West Bengal, which belongs to the Christian Catholic Religious Congregation of Carmelites of Mary Immaculate Fathers. The school is inspired by the educational vision of Saint Kuriakose Elias Chavara, one of the founders of the C.M.I. Congregation and a social reformer of the 19th century. The institution functions under the C.M.I. Dharmaniketan Educational Trust and C.M.I. Dharmaniketan Educational Trust, Eastern Region, under the aegis of Dharmaniketan C.M.I. Sub Region, West Bengal, of C.M.I. St. Joseph’s Province, Trivandrum, Kerala. The C.M.I. Congregation has a long tradition in education and has established many educational institutions across India and abroad. K.E. Carmel Group was founded with the vision of providing quality education, especially with attention to the integral development of students. The group has grown to include eight educational institutions in West Bengal. K.E. Carmel School, Siliguri follows the C.I.S.C.E. / ISC curriculum, New Delhi, and serves students from Nursery to class XII. The school continues the C.M.I. mission of forming students who are intellectually competent, spiritually mature, morally upright, psychologically integrated, physically healthy and socially acceptable. Its motto, “To Plant and Nurture”, reflects its commitment to nurturing young minds through value-based education, discipline, character formation and holistic development.

Our Vision

We imbibe our vision from the educational vision of St. Kurriakose Elias Chavara, our Heavenly Patron. He believed that Reason must be guided by one’s aith in God and the latter should be educated which is vital in one’s life due to it’s ability to mould. We open our institution to students beyond discrimination. We never compromise with human values and promote Christian virtues of Love, Charity and peaceful Co-existence. All our schools cater best education with modern technologies and amenities with a host of experienced and committed staff. We see the latent potential of our students and mould them into better individuals and globally competent citizens.

Our Mission

The CMI Mission aims at an education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, intellect is expanded and help is extended for one to stand on one’s own feet with a conviction that everyone is a precious gift of God. Hence, K.E. Carmel nurtures the little minds to become: Intellectually competent, spiritually matured, morally upright, psychologically integrated, physically healthy and socially acceptable. K.E. Carmel School is a powerful agent of social change and aspires towards creating a just human society where dignity of the person is respected, unjust social structures are challenged, cultural heritage of Ahimsa, Satya, Secularism, democracy, religious harmony and national integration are upheld and where the poor and marginalised are specially taken care of. Here, young minds are inspired and helped to imbibe genuine human values in the present global context of: Rampant injustice, Religion cultural fundamentalism, Environmental exploitation and the spread of materialistic culture.