Nalanda Higher Secondary School Kizhuppillikara
This school, which had its origin in 1958 as a management school, was later adopted by the Kerala Government and now functioning as a Government school. This school was one of the two schools permitted in the academic year 1958 -59 by the then Education Minister, Sri. Joseph Mundasheri.
In 1957, initial activities of the school were started in the residence of Sri Puthanpurakkal Raman. This school got its recognition only when it was upgraded to single division UP school on 1 July 1958. This school started functioning its UP Section in a two-room construction in the present SNSALP School, which is 1.5 km away from the location where this school is presently situated. When Late Sri Puthanpurakkal Raman constructed and donated the class rooms, the school started functioning at the present location. In 1959 – 60 when VII, VIII, and IX classes were also permitted, U.P. School, Kizhuppillikara, changed to Nalanda High School, Kizhuppillikara. The functioning of the school was under the control of the Management of the school committee. In this there were 19 members. The Executive Committee which comprises 6 members included Sri. P.M. Ramankutty, who was the President, and Sri. T. Balakrishna Menon, who was the Secretary. Besides, there was Vidwan P. Sankaran, Sri. K. Esan, Sri. K.V. Govindankutty and Sri. N.K. Kunjumarikkar as members. The functioning of the school was carried out with the donations received from generous people. The major portion of the land, where the school exists, was donated by S N D P Yogam and the rest bought by the management. Now, the school has more than 3 acres of land of its own.
In 1990, the then existing management entrusted the authority to the staff management. After this, it took initiative to handover the school to the Government. In 1995, this school was adopted by the Government. With this, the amenities of the school started to raise in bounty. In 2000, this school was upgraded to Higher Secondary School. The SSLC results also improved. For the past 5 years, Government Nalanda Higher Secondary School earned reputation as the only government school in Thrissur District which has cent percent pass. It is not out of place to mention here that this is the only school in Thrissur district which scored cent percent pass in the category of schools with strength of more than 50 students for SSLC examination in the academic year 2007 – 08. The specialties of the school is that there are well – equipped science , computer laboratories, libraries, CD Library, for high school and higher secondary school and a vast Multimedia hall as per the Edusat Scheme.
