It was founded in 1963 at Sakhipada in Sambalpur by the[1] Sisters of Saint Joseph's, Chambéry, India along with the late[2] Mr Banmali Babu, a social activist in Western Odisha.

In April 2014, the school installed Smart Class room boards to enhance teaching methods with advanced audio-visual aid.

Home assignments, note-book assessments, projects, aura-oral tests, school attendance and personal qualities are also summed up to evaluate a pupil's result for a particular academic year.

The school has a provision for Socially Useful Productive Work class where students are suggested to use their creativity in making arts and crafts.

Cabinet meetings also take place, headed by the principal and attended by all the cabinet members, house captains and vice captains, high school teachers and sometimes class monitors of all classes.