Sree Narayana Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School, Talap, Kannur-2 affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi is managed by Sree Bhakthi Samvardhini Yogam, an organization dedicated to the ideals of Sree Narayana Guru. The Institution aims at a comprehensive development of the child with accent on mental, moral and physical well being. In starting the school, the founders had been inspired by the tenet of the Guru. “Education for the liberation of the Individual” . The institution strives to mould the child into a healthy individual imbued with high moral and ethical values and aimed at the three fold development achieved through the head, the heart and the hand.
The Vidya Mandir was founded in October, 1980. It was upgraded as a Senior Secondary school in 1992, the first batch of pupils of XII Standard appeared for the All India Senior School Certificate Examination in March 1994.
The institution with a strength of 2400 students, in a little over a decade has steadily grown in stature producing outstanding results both in scholastic as well as non scholastic areas of learning and is one of the leading institutions in this part of the state of Kerala. A team of trained and highly qualified teachers are engaged in guiding the children with a view to developing their personality. Apart from the academic ventures, the school lays a lot of emphasis on a variety of co-curricular and extra- curricular activities to empower children to build competencies and meet the evolving challenges of life.