Hooghly Collegiate School was founded in 1812 as the Hooghly College and is one of the oldest schools in India and the 2nd oldest in West Bengal.

[2] HCS's early provenance is sketchily documented in Karuņāsāgar Vidyāsāgar, quoting from 'Education Committee' reports, periodicals and other print media of that period.

[citation needed] The so-called 'new building' (to the 'Ṣāṇḍeśvar Talā' end of the prayer ground, to house the laboratories and the classes IX to XI of the new Higher Secondary scheme)[3] and the box-like, stand-alone crafts-cum-smithy building were completed in 1956-57.

Source:[4] In author Suman Sen's 2017 horror-comedy book Koto Bhoot!

Ki Adbhut!, the main protagonist Batuk babu was an alumnus of this school.