The School was founded on 18 August 1958 by Samuel Mezhür Sekhose.

[4] In 1998, the Nagaland Government introduced a regulation that the word ENGLISH be removed from the names of all the schools in the state and thus the present name was given in memory of its founder.

[4] Mezhür Higher Secondary School is located at Midland Ward, Kohima, Nagaland.

The school is composed of 5 building blocks consisting of 67 rooms.

There are 2 basketball courts, a table tennis court, 2 computer labs, a science laboratory, 3 auditoriums and a school canteen.