The Church Missionary Society College High School (CMS High School) is situated in Kottayam, Kerala, India. It was started by the Church Missionary Society, England, in 1817 when no institution existed in the then-Travancore state to teach English. Rev. C.Y.Thomas in the History of Madhya Kerala Diocese says: " After 1836 we find in the C.M.S. records, references to the 'Kottayam Village Mission' with Bailey in charge of it and 'the Kottayam District Mission' under Baker, with his headquarters at Pallom, five miles to the South. They also continued educational work and built another college at Kottayam, the C.M.S. College in 1838. The new college made its real start in 1840 when the Rev. John Chapman took charge of it. According to Agur, in Church History of Travancore, Nagam Aiya and Velu