 But now it's standing high with over 4000 students and 250 teachers as the school is regarded as one of the leading government national schools in the country.The first Principal of this school was Mr. Pathmanathan.The school has four main houses namely; Kambar, Valluvar, Barathi and Illango (the four most important historians in Tamil history) which are used to represent the students at the Sportsmeet which is held annually.The school anthem was written in 1976 mentioning these four houses very often in the anthem.