Raja Rammohan Roy Academy started out as a preparatory boarding school for boys and girls at Caineville House in Mussoorie in 1950 and was first named Shishu Niketan. Within the span of a decade, the school emerged as a full fledged Senior Secondary School and was relocated to the sprawling campus in Clement Town, Dehradun where it resides today.

Under the nurturing gaze of the Society for the Advancement of Education, the school soon outgrew it?s initial title and in 1978 it was re-cast as the Raja Rammohan Roy Academy.