South Point School (India)
Coordinates: 22°31′33″N 88°22′12″E / 22.52583°N 88.37000°E / 22.52583; 88.37000
| South Point Group of Schools, Kolkata | |
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| Location | |
| Education Society - Regd. Office: Birla Building, 9/1 R. N. Mukherjee Road, Kolkata - 700001 Branch Office: 16 Mandeville Gardens, Kolkata - 700019
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| Information | |
| Type | Private school |
| Motto | Courage to Know |
| Established | 1 April 1954 |
| Founder | Satikanta Guha |
| Director | Dr. Madhu Kohli (Junior school) |
| Principal | Dalbir Kaur Chadda (Junior school) |
| Principal | Rupa Sanyal Bhattacharjee (High School) |
| Faculty | 300 (Junior school) 275 (High school) |
| Teaching staff | 150 (Junior school) 175 (High school) |
| Grades | Nursery I to V (Junior school) VI to XII |
| Number of students | 13,500 |
| Color(s) | Navy blue Gold White |
| Publication | Nursery books, song books and cds(Junior school), Write Now (High school wall magazine) Ascent (School magazine), Pointer (School newsletter) |
| Affiliation | WBBSE & WBCHSE, CBSE |
| Website | http://southpoint.edu.in/ |
South Point School also known as SPS along with South Point High School also known as SPHS together constitute the South Point group of schools. It is Kolkata's first coeducational school. The school opened in the year, 1954 and introduced higher secondary level in 1960. The school split into two buildings with the high school shifting to Ballygunge Place in 1980.
The school is noted for its strong academic foundations, encouragement of co-curricular and extra curricular activities as well as its varied and noted alumni.
South Point group of schools, consisting of the junior and senior divisions, made an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest educational institute in the world in 1984 till 1992. The existing South Point school in Kolkata of the M.P Birla Group, which was, till recently, managed by R S Lodha, has around 13,500 regular students on its rolls, and is reported to be the second-largest school in the world. The EducationWorld - IMRB International Survey ranked South Point High School at fourth in their 2007 list of India's most respected schools.
The group has further plans of setting up a third institute between Rajarhat and Ruby General hospital on the EM Bypass with a similar capacity.
The school offers education in English medium with Bengali and Hindi taught as vernaculars. Other subjects are taught as per the norms of the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education, the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education and the Central Board of Secondary Education.
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