Our History & Key Milestones

Fr. Denzil Keating SJ started Holy Family High School in 1944 as a parish institution in an old single-storied structure. The school's first headmistress was Ms. Maud D'Costa. The school began with just 5 classrooms and 80 students.

In 1963, a new school building adjoining the Holy Family Church was inaugurated. The building was extended in the 1970s to have multiple stories, with new classrooms and a school hall. A mini stadium was built on the old school ground using funds donated by Mr. Jitendra Shah. A few years later, the building became too small to cater to the growing number of parishioners. The building was sold and a more spacious one constructed, with its own playground, on a plot of land not far away.

On 22 October 1985, Fr. Lisbert D'Souza, S.J., Provincial Superior of the Bombay Jesuit Province blessed and laid the foundation stone of this new school building. On 16 July 1988, Bishop Ferdinand Fonseca blessed the new school building.

On 7 January 1989, under the tenure of Fr. Tony J. D'Souza S.J. as vicar, and Fr. Francis Gonsalves, S.J. as principal, the new school building was formally inaugurated by Simon Cardinal Pimenta, the Archbishop of Bombay. Thanks to the efforts of the students in the form of donations, raffles, and school fetes, a new hall and classrooms were constructed.

In 1995, the school celebrated its 50th Golden Jubilee with a grand display of fireworks and buried a time capsule at the foot of the Holy Family statue, to be reopened in the year 2045. In 2005, the school celebrated its 60th Diamond Jubilee fete organized by Principal Fr. Francis Swamy, S.J. and the PTA.