St. Xavier's High School, Fort

St. Xavier's High School, Fort Mumbai, India
St. Xaviers High School Mumbai Architect: Fr. Karl Wagner, S.J., from Mainz, Germany
Address
Fort, Mumbai, India Mumbai, Maharashtra India
Information
Type	English medium
Established	1869 (1869)
Principal	Mrs. Jennifer Dias^[1]
Grades	Primary & secondary
Gender	Boys
Enrollment	~2000
Affiliation	Jesuit (Catholic)
Website	xaviersfort

St. Xavier's High School, Fort, is an English medium school for boys in Fort, Mumbai, India. It is conducted by the Mumbai St. Xavier's Society to give an all-round education – academic, physical, moral, and spiritual – primarily to Catholics for whom it was established, but also to others irrespective of religion or race.

History

St. Xavier's was established in 1869 by the Jesuits in the neo-gothic building it occupies to this day. Fragments of its history are visible in the corridors of the primary section in the form of stuffed hunted animals shot by priests during the British Raj. Notable among these is the butterfly and bird collection on the first floor and the stuffed tiger on the third floor. The tiger was donated by the Maharaja of Vanzra, Gujrat, who attended St. Xavier's. The butterfly and bird collection is the work of Brother Navarro, a Spanish Jesuit and a naturalist who was associated with the school. At one corner of the primary quadrangle is a section of a ship's propeller which landed there at the time of the Bombay Harbour Explosion of 1944. St. Xavier's High School is approaching its 150th jubilee.

Education

St. Xavier's follows the SSC board which is the state board of the Government of Maharashtra. It runs classes from standard one to standard ten. The primary (standard one to four) and secondary school occupy different buildings. A class has four sections (A to D) with fifty to sixty students per division.

All students of the secondary school belong to one of four houses - Claver (blue), Gonzaga (yellow), Britto (red), Berchmans (green). These were earlier known as Ashoka (blue), Tilak (yellow), Nehru (red), and Tagore (green). Each house has an elected House Captain from standard ten and a Vice-Captain from standard nine. Additionally, a School Captain and Vice-Captain are elected from standard ten. These student representatives maintain student discipline and lead student and ceremonial activities.

Notable alumni

Somnath Bharadwaj - Scientist
Charles Correa - Architect
Deepak Parekh - Banking
Gautam Rajadhyaksha - Photographer ^[2]
Homi Sethna - Scientist
Nari Gandhi - Architect
Ustad Rais Khan - Musician
Soli Sohrabjee - Former Attorney General of India
Arjun Appadurai - Anthropologist
Ashok Chavan - Former Maharashtra CM
Julio Ribeiro - Police Commissioner of Mumbai, DGP Punjab, & Ambassador to Romania
Sunil Gavaskar - Former captain of Indian cricket team

Coordinates: 18°56′38.91″N 72°49′48.68″E / 18.9441417°N 72.8301889°E / 18.9441417; 72.8301889

References

↑ Dias
↑ Notable alumni St. Xavier's High School, Fort - official website.

External links

Official website

Jesuit secondary schools of India

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