The famous Seth and education lover Late Sri Rai Bahadur Naththi Mal KCIE & his brother Seth Ram Sahai Mal founded a primary institution Edward Coronation School on 22nd March 1901 in the memory of coronation of King Edward VII in a beautiful garden of the pottery town of Khurja in western Uttar Pradesh. The school might have crept in to all round progress and success when the Hon’ble Governor of United Province of Agra and Avadh Sir James Latoos established the foundation stone of main building of the school and declared starting of teaching on 14th December 1904. The school again started to build steps of progress when it gained the status of high school in 1905 and the district Collector of Bulandshahr Mr. A. B. Ford and later the Hon’ble Lt Governor of Agra and Avadh Province Sir J. P. Heiwett laid the stone of Govind Hostel on 8th November 1906 and Heiwett Hostel on 22nd February 1909, respectively.