Our Lady of Mount Carmel - the miracle school, opened its doors on September 1990 under the leadership of Fr.John S. McHugh, pastor at the time of Mount Carmel Parish. It was originally meant to be 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, originally meant for the use of the public kinder. At the end of the first academic year, the parents of the 57 students enrolled in the prep course solicited the management of the school to expand the programme into that of a regular high school. Such was the demand that provisions soon went 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 appropriate infrastructure.

Initially the school held sessions over at the Moran house across Jose Marti Street, rented for a number of years, and at the bottom flat of the old rectory. Work soon started for the necessary infrastructure to accommodate the growing number of students.

Today, Mount Carmel High School, a stone-throw across George Price Boulevard, boasts a well-laid campus, half an acre in size, with all the conveniences of a modern secondary school. It houses 14 classrooms, a chapel, Science and Computer labs, a library with internet access, vocational facilities for Food Proccessing and Woodwork, and audio-visual room and an enclosed basketball court. Mount Carmel High is currently staffed with 24 permanent teachers. The volunteer programme still brings teachers from differnt parts of the world including North America, Europe and Central America. It has grown to have a student population of 460 students.