‘Loreto’s banner gaily floats, In lands both East and West‘ as the school featured as the Top 10 Girls Day school in West Bengal by EducationWorld India School Rankings 2020-21. Loreto Convent Darjeeling ranked 9th in the list.
Loreto Convent is an English-medium girls’ high school located in Chauk Bazar, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India. It is run by Loreto Education Society of Darjeeling. The school is affiliated to the ICSE and ISC boards of Delhi.
Loreto Convent Darjeeling is an English-medium all girls high school in, Darjeeling. It is a Catholic Institution under the management of the Darjeeling Loreto Education Society. The School is recognized by the Education Department of the Government of West Bengal affiliated to the Indian Council for Secondary Education (I.C.S.E., I.S.C.).
The school was established during the British Raj by a group of Sisters belonging to the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary commonly known as the Loreto Sisters in 1846. Loreto Convent was relocated to the current site by 1847.
At the time of its foundation, it was the only educational institute at Darjeeling. Within a few weeks of their arrival, the Sisters opened a school with provisions for residential and day-pupils. For many years, the novitiate of the Indian
Branch of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary was in Darjeeling. The school takes pride in the fact that Mother Teresa made her novice ship at the school from 1921-1931.
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