Jawaharlal Nehru Govt. Higher Secondary School, Mahe, is one of the leading and most sought after Higher Secondary Schools in Mahe region imparting quality education. This institution has been nurturing the young minds of Mahe for the past hundred years with the belief that “The heart of education is the education of the heart”.

The history of Jawaharlal Nehru Govt. Higher Secondary School Mahe is very much associated with the history of Mahe. Mr.Voltaire Simon, a Missionary of German Basel Mission had been running an English school near Mahe in Pathira Kunnu at Chombala. In 1881, the Mission, with the permission of French Government, started a branch of it in Mahe by adopting a traditional school (Kudi Pallikudam ) run by Puthalath Kunnumpurath Perachan Vydiar. Perachan Vydiar had worked as a teacher in this school for years.

In 1914, when the First World War broke out, its waves resounded in the social atmosphere of French Mahe also. The French who had to bear the brunt of the German attack in the war withdrew the permission granted to function the one and only English Medium School run by the German Basel Mission in Mahe.