ST. ALPHONSUS H.P.S. according to the aim and motto always strives to educate mainly the poor and the neglected of the surrounding area and helps themselves to the better members of society Rev. Fr Joseph Morgan, the parish priest of Holy Ghost church at the time after visiting his vast parish consisting of 75% of Tamil speaking people started a Tamil medium school. He approached mother Anne, a French sister who was the provincial at St. Joseph of Tarbes Sisters at Cleveland town. She generously came forward to help and sent two sisters Sr. Maria Alphonse and Sr. Paula to begin the school. St. Alphonsus School, with the name of the founder of the Redemptorists started exactly on 17th January 1955, with 90 childrens. Rev. Fr. Mathew Hickey C ss R, who was Vice Provincial and Rector of Mt. St. Alphonsus with great generosity, gave all the rooms of the Redemptorist seminary building on the Ground Floor facing the church for the poor school.