Sivakasi Jaycees school was founded in 1972. The school has gradually developed over the years until it has evolved into a full fledged Higher Secondary School, offering the +2 since 1986. The school is affiliated to the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination, whose offices are in New Delhi. It prepares students for the ICSE (Class X) and the ISC (Class XII) examinations.

The school has 14 classes, commencing with the LKG upto the 12th class. LKG and UKG are housed in the Grace Cherian ITC Pre-school Block, Classes I to VII in the Auditorium Block, Classes VIII to X in the Senior School Block and Classes XI and XII in the Thangam Thomas Memorial Library Building.

The school endeavours to keep the number of students per class to a minimum, balancing efficiency and quality, with economy. From KG to Class X there are not more than 30 per Class. The present strength of the school is approximately 1200 students and 85 teaching staff.

To foster character, creativity, team spirit and healthy competition among the pupils, the whole school is divided into four houses namely Narmada, Godavari, Sutlej and Cauvery. The children are assigned to one of the houses from class 2 onwards.They wear different coloured house shirts every Friday and house assembly is held every friday. There are inter house competitions in arts, sports, debate etc in the school on a regular basis. This develops a team spirit to work for a common goal of making the house excel. Each house is given points based on their performance and the overall champions of the school is declared every year and they are the proud owners of the coveted trophy for the best house for a period of one year.