Siliguri Boys' High School

The school was established in 1898 as a Middle English School and upgraded to a High English School in 1918 with six students in standard VIII. However, 1918 is officially considered as the year of establishment of Siliguri Boys’ High School though it had started its function 20 years earlier.

After independence the school was converted to a Multipurpose High School in 1957, with the introduction of all the three streams: Science, Commerce and Humanities. This was the first multipurpose school of the region. Later the medium of instruction was shifted to Bengali from English.

The M.E school was housed in a big hut made of thatched paddy roof, wooden floor, plinth on logs and bamboo doors. It stood where the present Tathya Kendra stands. In 1922 the school was burnt to ashes.

A 2.29 acres (9,300 m2) of land was demarcated in the Railway Survey Map of 1877 near the Terminal Rail Station (now Siliguri Town Station) where the school stands today. In the initial years the classes were held in two buildings. One with 18 ft (5.5 m) x 80 ft with a 6 ft (1.8 m) veranda and the other was 56 ft (17 m) x 17 ft (5.2 m) with a 5 ft (1.5 m) verandah. The floors and plinth were made of concrete, with wooden walls and corrugated roofs. Later a 18 ft (5.5 m) x 15 ft concrete office and library were made followed by a bigger headmaster’s sitting room and lumber.

Behind this building there were two more rooms used as a hostel for the Hindu and Muslim students. Before this hostel was made the Hindu hostel was approximately 1 km far off on the Hill Cart Road, where the present Layak Bhawan stands.

Now the school has a double storied building with an auditorium, staff rooms, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Geography laboratories wholar school