The school's history is detailed by alumnus Christopher Rego in the book Faith and Toil.

After India's independence, admission was extended in the 1950s and 1960s to include all students, irrespective of race, religion, or caste.

The cricket team trains at the Centenary Ground located on Mahatma Gandhi Road near the Mayo Hall.

By 1913 the school had grown to 239 boarders and 183-day scholars, and two new blocks were added along with an immense playground called "New Fields" on Vittal Mallya Road.

Froger and Schmitt, earn their MA from the University of London, England, and they returned to teach.

Their health was entrusted to a Medical Officer and matrons in a large infirmary with a special room for infectious diseases.

The new facilities, along with improvements, offer a modern and aesthetic environment while retaining from British India the Roman Catholic chapel, the refectory, and the priests' residence.

[5] As early as 1841, Bishop Bonnaud planned to start a Catholic High school in Bangalore.

But this proposal took concrete shape only in 1854 when the priests of the Missions étrangères de Paris (MEP) bought a plot of land for a sum of INR 1000 at St. Johns Hill.

[citation needed] Madras University was established in 1858 and boarders were admitted to prepare for the matriculation examination there.

As a knowledge of English is necessary to our Indian pupils and that of Canarese to European boys, we determined to build a wing and a kitchen adjoining the Seminary.

Maurice Vissac, had the school affiliated to Madras University as a second-grade college that could prepare and send students for the F.A.

[citation needed] During and immediately after World War I, the French Fathers (MEP) found it difficult to staff the school.

Bishop Despastures of Mysore, under whose jurisdiction Bangalore came at the time, sought to free up his priests and get religious to teach.

[citation needed] He sought unsuccessfully to get the Canons of St Maurice from Switzerland but did get orders of teaching brothers.

[citation needed] When Italy aligned itself with Hitler against the British for World War II, Italian and German priests were branded as enemy aliens and were interned.