South Point School
| South Point School and South Point High School, Kolkata | |
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 South Point High School entrance | |
| Address | |
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Birla Building, 9/1 R. N. Mukherjee Road[1] (Education Society) 16 Mandeville Gardens (Junior School) 82/7A Ballygunge Place (High School) India | |
| Coordinates | 22°31′33″N 88°22′36″E / 22.52583°N 88.37667°E |
| Information | |
| Type | Private school |
| Motto | Courage to Know |
| Established | 1954 |
| Founder | Satikanta Guha |
| Principal | D.K. Chadda (Junior school) |
| Principal | Rupa Sanyal Bhattacharjee (High school) |
| Faculty | 120 (Junior school) 75 (High school)[2] |
| Teaching staff | 70 (Junior school) 40 (High school)[2] |
| Grades | Nursery I to V (Junior school) VI to XII (High school) |
| Number of students | ~ 12000 |
| Colour(s) | Navy blue, gold and white |
| Publication | Nursery books, Mathematics books, song books and CDs[3](Junior school), Pointer (School magazine) |
| Affiliation | Central Board of Secondary Education |
| Website | www |
South Point is a higher-secondary co-educational private school located in Kolkata, West Bengal and affiliated to Central Board of Secondary Education, consisting of three organisations – South Point School (Nursery to Class V), South Point High School (Classes VI to XII) and South Point Education Society (administrative authority).[4][5] The school operates in two shifts for all classes – Morning and Afternoon. The school opened in 1954, and was the first co-educational school in Kolkata. Higher Secondary (10+2) education was introduced in 1960. Initially operation as a single unit, the school split into two buildings with the high school shifting to Ballygunge Place in 1980.[6][7] It is claimed to be the only school in Kolkata to have a Nobel Laureate as an alumnus. It is regarded by many as one of the best schools in Kolkata.[8][9][10]
History
[edit]South Point School is an English-medium and co-educational school which was founded on 1 April 1954 at 16 Mandeville Gardens, Kolkata.[11]
Emblem and objective
[edit]The School Emblem, showing a bird (dove or paloma) in flight, symbolizes "man's everlasting quest for knowledge and the desire to soar above the mundane."[12] The motto of the School is 'Courage to Know'.[13]
Notable alumni
[edit]- Saurabh Bagchi, Professor of Computer Science, Purdue University, ACM,[14] IFIP,[15] IEEE[16] Distinguished Scientist, Humboldt Fellow[17]
- Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Professor of Economics, MIT, Nobel Laureate in Economics [8][18]
- Abhik Ghosh, chemist, professor, and winner of the Hans Fischer Career Award (2022) for lifetime contributions[19]
- Abhijit Mukherjee (Earth Scientist), scientist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (Prize) laureate [20]
- Pratim D. Gupta, journalist, film critic, screenwriter and film director
References
[edit]- ^ "Contact Us". South Point School. Retrieved 9 March 2012.
- ^ a b "Faculty". South Point School. Retrieved 9 March 2012.
- ^ "Nursery Books" (PDF). South Point School. Retrieved 9 March 2012.
- ^ "Kolkata Schools". Coaching Indians. Retrieved 18 August 2009.
- ^ Dey, Anurag. "In twilight years, gift of love to teachers". The Tribune. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
- ^ "History". South Point Education Society. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
- ^ "after which he took charge as assistant principal of South Point high school for seven years". Times of India.
- ^ a b Banerjee, Sudeshna (15 October 2019). "Abhijit was a quiet boy from class of 1976 at South Point". The Telegraph (Kolkata). Retrieved 16 October 2019.
- ^ "Alumni2". The Times of India.
- ^ "SOUTH POINT SCHOOL-Guinness Book". 14 October 2019. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
- ^ "History – SOUTH POINT SCHOOL". Retrieved 28 July 2020.
- ^ "Aims and Objectives – SOUTH POINT SCHOOL". Retrieved 16 October 2019.
- ^ "Aims and Objectives – SOUTH POINT SCHOOL". Retrieved 28 July 2020.
- ^ "ACM Honors Distinguished Computer Scientists, Engineers and Educators for Innovations". www.acm.org. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
- ^ "IFIP WG10.4 Members". www.dependability.org. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
- ^ "Saurabh Bagchi | IEEE Computer Society". Retrieved 7 June 2021.
- ^ Service, Purdue News. "Purdue engineer receives Humboldt Research Award". www.purdue.edu. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
- ^ "Abhijit Banerjee". The Times of India. 23 October 2019. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
- ^ "Society of Porphyrins & Phthalocyanines". www.icpp-spp.org. Retrieved 16 April 2022.
- ^ "Abhijit Mukherjee". The Times of India. 27 September 2020. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
