Ankulai High School, Mandhatapur was established in 1964.This school has name and fame in our locality. This school has produced many scholars. Recently this school has been awarded as the best school in Nayagarh Block. This year students perform well in HSCE exam and overall school result was about 85%.The founder of this school was Late Sridhar Mahapatra, a social worker. The first headmaster of this school was Late Lingaraj Mishra, an educationist. Now the total strength of the school is 400.This school has 16 teachers and 3 other employees having an ICT and Science Lab.