Under the Alla Kantale Farmer Colony Movement, the fourth school built by the government to provide educational facilities to the children of the settlers settled in Gantalawa New Colony in the mid-1950s is today called Gantalawa Maha Vidyalaya. . The school community has worked together to develop Gantalawa Maha Vidyalaya as a school suitable for opening new paths for the children entering the world of tomorrow, along with modern technology, which has produced many brave children who have won at the national level in arts and commercial subjects as well as sports, aesthetics and social science co-curricular activities for sixty-eight years.