MCHS serves youth of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish, especially the underprivileged, by providing rigorous intellectual, spiritual, and physical formation within the Catholic Tradition, nurturing students to their potential as fruitful citizens and members of the Church.

Mount Carmel High School is a Catholic institution of secondary education that is focused on educating students to become well rounded individuals. Our goal is form students that will first put the Catholic values as their main moral standard to make decisions. 

Mount Carmel High School – the miracle school, opened its doors on September 1990 under the leadership of Fr. John S. McHugh (SOLT), pastor at the time of Our Lady of Mount 

Carmel Parish. It was originally meant to be a prep school, offering a one year tutoring service to the youth in the parish who, for academic and financial reasons, could not afford a high school education. The humble beginnings were in a one-storey ferro-concrete building donated by the local town board; this building had originally been meant for public use. 

At the end of the first academic year, the parents of the 57 students enrolled in the course solicited the management of the school to expand the programme into that of a regular high school. Such was the demand that provisions were soon underway to establish a secondary school for the academic and economically disadvantaged of Benque Viejo del Carmen and surrounding areas. This was made possible through the generosity of university graduates from abroad who volunteered to teach, and patrons, at home and abroad, who soon started donating funds for construction of an appropriate infrastructure.

 Today, Mount Carmel High School is our country’s foremost Catholic high school. Its modern facilities include: 16 classrooms, a beautiful chapel, biology and chemistry laboratories, 2 computer labs, a library,  a counseling room, vocational facilities for food processing, sewing, and residential wiring, 2 audio-visual room, a security booth, a cafeteria and snack shop, a basketball court, and a footbolito field. Mount Carmel is currently staffed with 28 permanent teachers. The volunteer program still brings teachers from different parts of the world including North America,  Europe, and Central America. It has grown to have a student population of  almost 500 students.