| South Point School and South Point High School, Kolkata | |
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 South Point High School entrance | |
| Location | |
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Birla Building, 9/1 R. N. Mukherjee Road[1] (Education Society) 16 Mandeville Gardens (junior school) 82/7A Ballygunge Place (high school) India | |
| Coordinates | 22°31′33″N88°22′36″E / 22.52583°N 88.37667°E /22.52583; 88.37667 |
| Information | |
| Type | Private school |
| Motto | Courage to Know |
| Established | 1954; 71 years ago (1954) |
| Founder | Satikanta Guha |
| Principal | D. K. Chadda (Junior school) |
| Principal | Jaidev Ghosh (High school) |
| Faculty | 120 (junior school) 75 (high school)[2] |
| Teaching staff | 70 (junior school) 40 (high school)[2] |
| Grades | Nursery I toV (junior school) VI toXII (high school) |
| Number of students | ≈12000 |
| Colours | Navy blue, gold and white |
| Publication | Nursery books, mathematics books, song books and CDs[3](junior school), Pointer (school magazine) |
| Affiliation | Central Board of Secondary Education |
| Website | www |
South Point is ahigher-secondaryco-educationalprivate school located inKolkata, West Bengal and affiliated toCentral Board of Secondary Education, consisting of three organisations –South Point School (nursery to Class V),South Point High School (classes VI to XII) andSouth Point Education Society (administrative authority).[4][5] The school operates in two shifts for all classes: morning and afternoon. The school opened in 1954 and was the first co-educational school inKolkata. Higher secondary (10+2) education was introduced in 1960.
The school entered theGuinness Book of World Records as the largest educational institute of the world in 1984 until 1992, in terms of student numbers.[6] Regarded by many national school surveys as one of the best schools in India, the school has educated noted academics, politicians, artists, filmmakers, and entertainers.[7][8] The school has among its alumni aNobel laureate, severalShanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology laureates, and winners ofNational Film Awards.[9][10][11]
Founded on 1 April 1954 at 16 Mandeville Gardens,Kolkata, bySatikanta Guha and his wife, Pritylata Guha, the institution began as the first English medium co-educational school in Kolkata with just twenty students, and the founders’ vision was supported by a small, devoted group of teachers, with the initial faculty comprising prominent figures from Bengal's cultural, literary, and artistic circles.
Initially operational as a single unit, the school split into two buildings, with the high school shifting to Ballygunge Place in 1980.[12][13] The school initially had among its faculty, noted actor and directorUtpal Dutt,[14] teaching English Literature,Gita Ghatak,[15] notedRabindrasangeet vocalist and acclaimed actress as a teacher of music,Kamal Kumar Majumdar, noted Bengali writer and critic, teaching Bengali and his younger sister, the artistShanu Lahiri teaching arts and crafts.[16]
The School Emblem, showing a bird (dove or paloma) in flight, symbolizes "man's everlasting quest for knowledge and the desire to soar above the mundane."[17] The motto of the School is 'Courage to Know'.[18]
In order to address space constraints and enhance infrastructure, South Point School and South Point High School will move to a new and much larger campus named the Priyamvada Birla Campus of South Point named after the late Smt. Priyamvada Birla, philanthropist and wife ofM.P. Birla Group founder Late ShriMadhav Prasad Birla. The campus is currently under construction.[19][20]
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