Hooghly Collegiate School or HCS is a Bengali medium higher secondary boys' school founded in 1812 in Hooghly district under the Department of School Education West Bengal, India. The school is affiliated to the WBBSE and WBCHSE.The name of the school changed once or twice, till it came to be known as 'Hooghly College' and thence 'Hooghly Collegiate School' when the college wing was created. The location underwent changes, too. At present, the school has four buildings. 1. Mohsin Bhawan 2. Vidyasagar Bhawan 3. Bankim Chandra Bhawan & 4. Prafulla Chandra Bhawan.Some of its renowned alumnus are-- Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay- Ramesh Chandra Majumdar- Justice Syed Amir Ali- Ashutosh Mukhopadhyay- Akshay Chandra Sarkar- Padmashree Sri. Shubhas Chandra Basu Ray- Brahmabandhab Upadhyay (1861-1907) and many more..