Parvaiz Samuel Koul, the principal of the school, said the centenary celebrations are a testimony to the efforts of the school in educating the girl child in the city initially and later in other parts of the valley.
"From just 12 girls in 1912, the school today has a roll of nearly 3,000 students. Our efforts are towards educating the girl child and her development," Koul told reporters here.
He said the school was adversely affected by the mass migration of Kashmiri Pandits at the time of eruption of militancy in Kashmir as 56 teachers left the school.
"Most of these teachers were belonging to the community or were from outside valley. The five to six years after 1990 were difficult but we returned to our normal activities in 1996," he said.
The principal said that the incident of arson at Tangmarg in Baramulla district during 2010 summer protests, in which a branch of the school was gutted, had nothing to do with the school.
"We had 50 new students after the school resumed in 2010 which is evidence that the incident had nothing to do with the school as such. There were extraneous factors involved which we would not like to dwell upon," he added.
On the general complaint that the missionary schools like Mallinson and Biscoe had been commercialised, Koul said every sector has been commercialised.
"One has to look at the kind of infrastructure we have built over the years. We have opened two new schools
