 It was started by the Catholic diocese and was later taken over by the Society of Jesus.The school was again handed over to the Latin Catholic Archdiocese of Trivandrum in 1998 by the Jesuits and was then aided by the Government of Kerala.In the late 1960s, it was one of the few schools in Kerala that was offering Latin as a second language and until 2006, the school never permanently employed a female teaching staff.