The school offers education to girls in English, Tamil and Telugu mediums till class 10.

William Hoyles Drew, who died from cholera in Pulicat, and cousin of English playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

The Bentinck School once offered Education in English, Tamil and Telugu, the main languages of the Madras Presidency.

[1][2][14] As reported in 'The Missionary Magazine and Chronicle' in 1843, the Native Female Boarding School was superintended by Mrs. William Porter.

[16] Sykes was nine years old when the First World War broke out, forcing a beloved teacher, who happened to be German, to leave her position.

[18] Sykes came to Madras (now called Chennai) in 1928 to serve as a teacher at the Bentinck School, remaining a resident of India for more than 60 years.

She contributed enormous effort to advancing new forms of education advocated by Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore.

In the 1960s Sykes served in efforts to bring peace in Nagaland, as well as living and conducting nonviolence training in Kotagiri in the Nilgiris Hills, and becoming increasingly active among Quakers, at Rasulia (Madhya Pradesh) as well as outside India.

[18] After an illness, at age 85 years, Sykes moved in 1991 from India to Swarthmore, a Quaker residential home in Buckinghamshire, England, where she remained until her death on 17 August 1995.

[18][19] In May 1928, Marjorie Sykes was requested to take up work as a teacher at the Bentinck School, which was run by the London Missionary Society, and left England in October 1928.

In 1930, Marjorie was appointed as the Principal of the Bentinck School after the resignation of Alice Varley after her marriage to Quaker Ted Barnes.