OUR HISTORY

The Loreto Sisters  were invited by the Archbishop of Calcutta , to provide education for girls in the growing Chotanagpur  church. In 1890, the first Sisters in the Ranchi district,  Sisters Gonzaga McCarthy, Patricia Quinn, Aloysia O'Brien, Teresa Rodriguez  came to Purulia Road in Ranchi where they set up a small school  and gave instruction in the 3Rs.  However, in 1903, due to illness and  lack of personnel they had to leave  the are handing over the work to the Ursuline Sisters.

 In 1943,Loreto was once more asked to begin an English-medium school in the Doranda  area of Ranchi .The Sisters  acquired a bungalow  from a family and later the extensive adjoining Tea Board  property which provided spacious playing fields. 

Sr. Lelia Maguire was the foundress of this venture which catered to families of the developing factory and mining belt.. Both boys and girls were educated here till St Xavier's was opened in 1960. 

Over the years as numbers have increased new buildings have been added in 1961,and 1973. In1983 the old bungalow was replaced by the new convent .In 1986 a new Primary school wing  was built and the administrative block in1998.

PAST PRINCIPALS

1943 Sr.Lelia Maguire
1953 Sr.Claude Maloney
1958 Sr.Pauline Rego
1961 Sr.Conrad D'Souza
1967 Sr.Joseph Raphael Redmond
1970 Sr.Pauline Rego
1974 Sr.Carmella Coelho
1975 Sr.Margaret Mary Nelson
1979 Sr.Magdalen Munro
1980 Sr.Margaret Murphy
1984 Sr.Victorine Greene
1987 Sr.Celine Pinto
1993 Sr.Philomena Dowd
1996 Sr.Mercia D'Souza
2000 Sr.Bernadette D'Rozario
2004  Sr. Goretti Tirkey