About
The Mar Thoma Church Educational Society (MTCES) was started on 11th May, 1966, with the objective of establishing and running a first class English Medium Residential School in Trivandrum. The first recorded official meeting of the progenitors of MTCES was on 15th March, 1966, under the presidentship of the Metropolitan of the Mar Thoma Church, Rt Rev Dr. Juhanon Mar Thoma. It was decided at the meeting to constitute the Mar Thoma Church Educational Society in Trivandrum. A draft constitution was discussed and approved. The Society was registered on 11th May, 1966, under the Travancore-Cochin Literary, Scientific and Charitable Societies Registration Act of 1955.On 6th June 1966, the Committee started the lower primary section of the Indian School Certificate(ISC) course (formerly Senior Cambridge) at a rented house in Nanthencode, as a preparatory course and then as a regular course in January 1967. The school started in 1966 with two classes, with Rev P.K Koshy as its Principal, Mrs P.K Koshy and MrsAnnamma Varghese as teachers and five students. Koshy Achen's home was the "boarding". In 1967, there were five experienced teachers, and 67 students of whom 42 were boarders.
