Having walked into the school at the age of three the sheltered years of school life come to an end for a student after thirteen to fifteen long years. The students of classes X and XII are now ready to make choices and decisions about their future. Their last working day, usually in the second week of February, is celebrated as the ‘Graduation Ceremony’. It is a formal function held to bid farewell to the outgoing students.

To give a touch of tradition and culture to the whole event, the girls are required to come in a saree and the boys in their ethnic best, like sherwani. This adds more colour to the school premises, which is decorated with buntings and balloons. Every student is happy to find his or her name amidst the buntings. However, mixed feelings prevail amongst the teachers and the students. After being monitored for many years the students are happy to make their independent flight into the more challenging and competitive world but they do find it difficult to say goodbye.

The function begins with an invocation song by some of our teachers followed by the lighting of a lamp called the Mother lamp by the Director of Kumaran Group of Institutions, Smt. Meenakshi Balakrishnan. Starting with the school prefects, head boy and head girl, every outgoing student then lights one little lamp each, taking the flame from the mother lamp amidst the chanting of the Vedas. The lighting of the lamp by the students is in keeping with the school's motto ‘LEAD KINDLY LIGHT’. Every student is thus bound to spread the light of knowledge he or she has acquired to the outside world. Next on the agenda is the honouring of the students who have excelled in areas like academics sports, arts and literary activities and computers, the most prestigious of these being the Best Outgoing Student Award.

The Principal, Mrs. Deepa Sridhar, on behalf of all the teachers addresses the students. This is followed by students sharing their experiences and memories in a gratifying mood. A memento is handed over by the students to the school.

The formal function is followed by a very informal lunch programme coupled with photograph sessions. The students then disperse with the sense of responsibility of being a Kumaranite.