St. Xavier's Collegiate School (informally SXCS) is a boys-only independent day school in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It was founded in 1860 by the Jesuits and it is named after St. Francis Xavier, a Jesuit saint of the 16th century, who travelled to India. The school completed its Sesquicentennial year of existence, in 2010.
The school houses roughly 2300 pupils aged 5 to 18. Admission to the school is based on a form shortlist and an interview. Every year in April, the school admits pupils aged 5 in Preparatory and aged 6 in Grade 1. SXCS pupils take the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education in tenth and twelfth Grades. Pupils are offered a choice between Commerce or Science subjects in eleventh and twelfth grades. The school previously offered the Madhyamik but it does not offer it anymore because of the diminishing popularity of the Madhyamik among pupils. Many of the school's pupils are children of alumni.
The School, whose alumni range from the Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore to the former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly, is considered to be one of India's best schools.
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