The Mawlai Presbyterian Primary School was established by the Foreign Missionary sometime during the mid-sixties of the 19th Century. Its main objective was to give the people of Mawlai an opportunity to learn how to read and write. During those days, there were no syllabus, curriculum, text-books, and well-graded classes.

It was a Non-Formal Primary Singled Teacher School up to the year 1950. From 1958 onwards there were two teaching staff in the school and 50 pupils in all. A classroom system was introduced, and as years passed the number of students kept increasing. The locality was a fast-growing area that came in the view of the sponsoring body, which observed that the primary school, a section which was in great demand, needed to be upgraded.