South Point School

For other schools using this name, see South Point High School.

South Point School and South Point High School, Kolkata
South Point High School entrance
Address
Map
Birla Building, 9/1 R. N. Mukherjee Road[1] (Education Society)
16 Mandeville Gardens (junior school)
82/7A Ballygunge Place (high school)

Kolkata, West Bengal

India
Coordinates22°31′33″N 88°22′36″E / 22.52583°N 88.37667°E / 22.52583; 88.37667
Information
TypePrivate school
MottoCourage to Know
Established1954 (1954)
FounderSatikanta Guha
PrincipalD.K. Chadda (junior school)
PrincipalRupa Sanyal Bhattacharjee (high school)
Faculty120 (sunior school)
75 (high school)[2]
Teaching staff70 (junior school)
40 (high school)[2]
GradesNursery I to V (junior school)
VI to XII (high school)
Number of students~ 12000
Colour(s)Navy blue, gold and white    
PublicationNursery books, mathematics books, song books and CDs[3](junior school),
Pointer (school magazine)
AffiliationCentral Board of Secondary Education
Websitewww.southpoint.ac.in www.southpoint.edu.in

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.

The school entered the Guiness Book of World Records as the largest educational institute of the world in 1984 until 1992, in terms of student numbers.[6] Regarded by many national school surveys as one of the best schools in India, the school has educated noted academics, politicians, artists, filmmakers, and entertainers.[7][8] The school has among its alumni a Nobel laureate, several Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology laureates, and winners of National Film Awards.[9][10][11]

History

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Founded on 1 April 1954 at 16 Mandeville Gardens, Kolkata, by Satikanta Guha and his wife, Pritylata Guha, the institution began as the first English medium co-educational school in Kolkata with just twenty students, and the founders’ vision was supported by a small, devoted group of teachers, with the initial faculty comprising prominent figures from Bengal’s cultural, literary, and artistic circles.

Initially operational as a single unit, the school split into two buildings, with the high school shifting to Ballygunge Place in 1980.[12][13] The school initially had among its faculty, noted actor and director Utpal Dutt,[14] teaching English Literature, Gita Ghatak,[15] noted Rabindrasangeet vocalist and acclaimed actress as a teacher of music, Kamal Kumar Majumdar, noted Bengali writer and critic, teaching Bengali and his younger sister, the artist Shanu Lahiri teaching arts and crafts.[16]

Emblem and objective

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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."[17] The motto of the School is 'Courage to Know'.[18]

Priyamvada Birla Campus

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In order to address space constraints and enhance infrastructure, South Point School and South Point High School will move to a new and much larger campus named the Priyamvada Birla Campus of South Point named after the late Smt. Priyamvada Birla, philanthropist and wife of M.P. Birla Group founder Late Shri Madhav Prasad Birla. The campus is currently under construction.[19][20]

Notable alumni

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Academia
Sciences

Humanities

Writers

Ars and entertainment

Politics

References

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  1. ^ "Contact Us". South Point School. Retrieved 9 March 2012.
  2. ^ a b "Faculty". South Point School. Retrieved 9 March 2012.
  3. ^ "Nursery Books" (PDF). South Point School. Retrieved 9 March 2012.
  4. ^ "Kolkata Schools". Coaching Indians. Retrieved 18 August 2009.
  5. ^ Dey, Anurag. "In twilight years, gift of love to teachers". The Tribune. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
  6. ^ "Guiness World Records". Get Bengal. 23 October 2019. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
  7. ^ "School". The Times of India. 23 October 2019. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
  8. ^ "School Performance". The Times of India. 23 October 2019. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ "Alumni2". The Times of India.
  11. ^ "SOUTH POINT SCHOOL-Guinness Book". 14 October 2019. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  12. ^ "History". South Point Education Society. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
  13. ^ "after which he took charge as assistant principal of South Point high school for seven years". Times of India.
  14. ^ "History – SOUTH POINT SCHOOL".
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  19. ^ "2022 date for Bypass campus". www.telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
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  21. ^ "ACM Honors Distinguished Computer Scientists, Engineers and Educators for Innovations". www.acm.org. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  22. ^ "IFIP WG10.4 Members". www.dependability.org. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
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  24. ^ Service, Purdue News. "Purdue engineer receives Humboldt Research Award". www.purdue.edu. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
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  28. ^ "Abhijit Mukherjee". The Times of India. 27 September 2020. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  29. ^ "Amitava Raychaudhuri".
  30. ^ "Sreyash Sarkar".
  31. ^ "Sucharit Sarkar". The Times of India. 27 September 2020. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  32. ^ "Supriya Chaudhuri". Shakespeare in Bengal. 23 October 2019. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
  33. ^ "Aroup Chatterjee". NYT. 23 October 2019. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
  34. ^ "Shamik Ghosh" (PDF). The Times of India. 27 September 2020. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  35. ^ "Anuradha Roy".
  36. ^ "Tanmoy Bose". Swarganga. 23 October 2019. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
  37. ^ "Bhaswar Chatterjee".
  38. ^ "Prosenjit Chatterjee". The Indian Express. 23 October 2019. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  39. ^ "Saswata Chatterjee". The Times of India. 27 September 2020. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  40. ^ "Aniruddha Roy Choudhury". The Indian Express. 23 October 2019. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  41. ^ "Sourav Das".
  42. ^ "Swaroop Dutta". The Times of India. 27 September 2020. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  43. ^ "Rajat Ganguly".
  44. ^ "Rituparno Ghosh". The Times of India. 23 October 2019. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
  45. ^ "Abhijit Das Gupta".
  46. ^ "Pratim D. Gupta".
  47. ^ "Baudhayan Mukherji".
  48. ^ "Kamalini Mukherji".
  49. ^ "Srijit Mukherji". The Indian Express. 23 October 2019. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  50. ^ "Bedabrata Pain". The Indian Express. 23 October 2019. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  51. ^ "Riddhi Sen".
  52. ^ "Subrata Sen".
  53. ^ "Papiya Adhikari".
  54. ^ "Ritabrata Banerjee". The Indian Express. 23 October 2019. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
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