History
After the independence of India in 1947, the princely state of Cooch Behar was merged with India as Cooch Behar district within West Bengal and Jenkins School was declared as one of the state government schools. During that period many teachers joined the school under the patronage of the then king of Cooch Behar, Maharaja Jagat Dwipendra Narayan and the government of West Bengal. Between the late 1940s and the early 1960s, the school flourished under the leadership of Head Master Kalipada Mukherjee. The Maharaja also employed Sailen Datta, a veteran cricketer of the Bengal cricket team for the upliftment of sports education in the school.
The National Award for Teachers was given to Prabodh Chandra Goswami, a popular mathematics teacher in Jenkins School, in 1958, the first year that the award was instituted.
100 years of existence of Jenkins School was marked in January 1961 through a centenary celebration. January 2011 saw the celebration of 150 years of the institution.
The first line of the school anthemis: "Moder Jenkins School, Biharo Tirthe Amar-o Kirti, Banir Punnyo Deoul…"
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