St. Mary's Higher Secondary School -Colachel
| School Name | St. Mary's Higher Secondary School -Colachel |
| Address | Colachel, Chemponvilai, Kurunthancode, Nagercoil, Tamilnadu |
| Location | Colachel |
| City | Nagercoil |
| District | Kanniyakumari |
| State | Tamilnadu |
| Pincode | 629251 |
| Category | Higher Secondary School |
| Block | Kurunthancode |
St. Mary's Higher Secondary School -Colachel is located in Colachel, Chemponvilai, Kurunthancode, Nagercoil, Tamilnadu. Established in year 1937, the school is a Co-educational and is located in Rural area. This is a Higher Secondary school and is currently operational. It's affiliated with State Board for class-X & class-XII exams. The school is managed by Government Aided. The school comes under Colachel municipality. It comes under Colachel assembly constituency. This school is situated in Kanniyakumari parliamentary constituency. The medium of instructions is English in the school but Tamil is also spoken during classes.
| Class VI to VIII | 392 Students |
| Class IX to XII | 1094 Students |
| Total Students | 1486 Students |
| Total Teachers | 42 Teachers |
| Student-Teacher Ratio | 35:1 |
| Student-Classroom Ratio | 28:1 |
This institution has around one thousand five hundred students studying being taught by around 42 teachers. The school has student-teacher ratio of 35 students per teacher. 41 teachers are appointed on Regular basis and rest one is appointed on Contract basis. Five teachers are Male and remaining 37 are Female. In terms of Academic qualification twelve teachers are Below Graduate, seven are Graduate and rest 23 are Post Graduate. One teacher is trained in Computer. The student classroom ratio is 28:1, means on an average twenty eight students sit in a classroom which is very good. There are 392 students in class VI to VIII and 1094 students in class IX to XII.
The school is in a private building and it has pucca boundary walls. The school has total fifty four clasrooms and seven other rooms. The school has one laptop, eight desktops, one digiboard and one webcam in its premises. There is reading corner, library and book bank for students. There are four boys toilets and twenty girls toilets for students. The school has both hand wash facility and drinking water facility for people.