The District Magistrate and Collector of Mymensingh established the foundation stone of the school, novelist Romesh Chunder Dutt.

In the 1930s, Datta High School made a significant contribution in promoting women's education in Netrokona.

Jainesh Ranjan Roy, the chief rector of Datta High School, started in 1933 a separate section of the seventh grade with only eight female students.

Datta High School creates another history by celebrating the birth of Rabindranath Tagore outside Santiniketan in Bangladesh.

For secondary students, there are two shifts for boys and girls where they study from class six to SSC.