The CMI congregation having its roots in India’s own soil is the first indigenous religious congregation of the Catholic Church. The vision of CMI fathers is to bear witness to the values preached and practiced by Jesus Christ by responding to the needs of the times drawing inspiration from their founder father Bl. Kuriakose Elias Chavara.

Bl. Kuriakose Elias Chavara was born in 1805, of pious and devout catholic parents of Syro Malabar Church, at Kainakary, Kerala. After his early schooling in the native village and priestly studies under Fr. Thomas Plalackal at Pallippuram, he was ordained priest in 1829. In 1831, co-operating with Fr. Thomas Palackal and Fr. Thomas Porukkara, he founded the first indigenous congregation for men, now known as the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (CMI). Instead of confining his piety to the cloister, this great visionary distinguished himself as a social reformer, prolific writer, and an educationist. He heralded changes in the educational scenario of Kerala by starting the first free Sanskrit school that was open to all, irrespective of caste or creed, in 1864. It was his directive that ‘each church should have a school attached to it’ during his tenure as vicar general of Syro Malabar Church. As a result, the CMI congregation today has a large network of 520 educational institutions ranging from play school to professional colleges, and even to deemed universities spread across different countries and continents.

Silver Hills Public School at Paroppady is privileged to be one among this vast network of educational institutions of the CMI fathers spread out across the country setting a new standard of education and emulated by upcoming institutions. The CMI’s faithfully adhere to the ideal of integration trying to bring about a harmonious and happy blending of the sacred with the secular, modernity with heritage, competitiveness with cooperation, technology with humanism and self reliance with social sensitivity.