 A group of four B.A.graduates— Sriyuths U. Srinivas Rao, B. Padmanabha Baliga, B. Vaman Baliga and Arkal Vasudev Rao—with a mission to educate the Gowda Saraswat Brahmin community in Mangalore were the first teachers and proprietors.In 1922, the Canara High school Association was registered under the Indian Societies Registration Act and took over the management of the school.