St. Xavier's School, Jawalakhel
| St. Xavier's School | |
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Jawalakhel Kathmandu, Bagmati Zone Nepal | |
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| Type | Public school (Privately funded) (UK) |
| Motto | Live for God, Lead for Nepal |
| Established | 1951 |
| School district | Lalitpur |
| Director | Fr. A.V. Matthew, S.J |
| Principal | Fr. Amrit Rai, S.J. |
| Headmistress | Sr. Clara, F.M.A. |
| Headmaster | Mr. Nanda Kumar Thapa |
| Staff | about 401 |
| Faculty | Science, Commerce |
| Number of students | Coeducational |
| Song | Hamro pyaro ramro school |
| Nickname | Xavierians |
| Affiliations | S.L.C Board (Secondary) and HSEB (+2) |
| Information | +977-1-5521150, +977-1-5521050 +977-1-1618015521050 |
| Website | http://www.stx.edu.np |
St. Xavier's School is a secondary school established in 1951 by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), in the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal. It was all-male until 2000 when it went co-ed.
History
St. Xavier's School was established by the Jesuit missionary Marshall D. Moran. Fresh from the newly acquired democratic political system after a century long system of familial rule by the "Ranas", Nepal was beginning to open out to the world and the incumbent king of Nepal, Tribhuwan Bir Bikram Shah, is said to have personally invited Moran, who at that time worked in Patna, India, to institute Jesuit education to Nepal. Moran complied and in 1951 St. Xavier's School was opened in Godawari, on the outskirts of the capital city Kathmandu.
St. Xavier's School was the first institute in Nepal to be affiliated with Cambridge University. In 1957 it offered the first GCE exams in Nepal and again in 1984 when the school resumed General Certificate of Education O levels.[1] The early 1950s found Nepal isolated and little exposed to the outside world. Xavier, run mostly by American Jesuits, introduced a new standard of excellence for education in Nepal. A disproportionate number of Jesuits found their way to Nepal, and teaching at Xavier, when they found themselves unable to remain in India because of visa problems.
While Xavier's mission statement speaks of "formation of our students, their parents and each other, ... educational excellence, spiritual growth and social justice, ... active service of God, Nepal and the human society,[2] its impact on the country is equally noticeable in the improvement of English taught in the schools.
An all-boys school from 1951 until 2000, Xavier began admitting girls in the academic session of 2000/01, at first as one third of its population but later in equal numbers.
Branches
St. Xavier's School, established at Godawari on the outskirts of Kathmandu in 1951, added a branch at Jawalakhel within the city in 1954. Until 1999 the two branches operated as a single unit with students at Godawari transferring to Jawalakhel after grade six. The Jawalakhel branch on the other hand ran classes from grade one through grade ten. Starting in 1999 the Godawari branch extended its offerings beyond middle school to grade ten and became more of a local school, serving Godawari and surrounding areas. Jawalakhel draws students nationwide.
Curriculum
The school follows the national standard School Leaving Certificate (S.L.C.) curriculum for grade ten. The performance in the S.L.C. examinations by the students of St. Xavier's School has over the years been exceptional: failures in any given year are rare and well over half of all candidates score within the highest division (above an aggregate score of 60%).