It is a kindergarten through 12th grade school of secondary education, in Asansol, India, in the western part of West Bengal, about 200 km from Kolkata.

In 1895 the high school was sponsored by the Congregation of Christian Brothers, a Catholic missionary society from Ireland.

Arsenius Ryan, the provincial of the Brothers, inspected an adjacent partly-cultivated plot of 50 bighas as a possible site for the orphanage.

The site was purchased and, with the addition of surrounding plots, it increased to 390 bighas, the property on which St. Vincent's now stands.

The foundation stone of St. Vincent's School was laid by Dr. Meulman S.J., Archbishop of Calcutta, on 25 October 1919.

To meet strict government stipulations, students were presented for the matriculation of Calcutta University.

In 1942, during World War II, the British military took over the school and 350 troops from the Royal Air Force occupied the buildings, except the Chapel.

The provincial of the Christian Brothers in Australia sent a Br Raphael Maher, who was a qualified technical instructor.