St. Xavier's School, Godavari

St. Xavier's School, Godavari
Address
GPO Box 50, Kathmandu
Godavari, Lalitpur District, Bagmati Zone
Nepal
Coordinates 27°42′12″N 85°19′05″E / 27.7033°N 85.3181°E / 27.7033; 85.3181Coordinates: 27°42′12″N 85°19′05″E / 27.7033°N 85.3181°E / 27.7033; 85.3181
Information
Type Roman Catholic school
Motto Live for God, Lead for Nepal
Religious affiliation(s) Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
Established 1951 (1951)
Founder Marshall D. Moran
Principal Fr. Samuel Simick, S.J
Gender Boys' school (until 1996)
Co-educational (after 1996)
Enrollment 1,015 students
Song "From the Snows"
Nickname SXG
Information +977-01-5174058/5174193/016227766
Website sxg.edu.np

St. Xavier's School is a Nepalese Jesuit school located in Godavari, Lalitpur District, Bagmati Zone. The school is about 15 kilometres (9.3 miles) outside Kathmandu. It is the oldest educational institution of Nepal, founded in 1951.

History

St. Xavier's is the oldest educational institution of Nepal and one of the best known. It was started in 1951 by American Jesuit priest and missionary Marshall D. Moran and a group of other American Jesuit priests. After a few years, because of the increasing number of students, the primary school was shifted to St. Xavier's School, Jawalakhel, located in Jawalakhel, and the high school remained at Godavari.

In 1969, due to ever growing demands for admission to the school, St. Xavier's Godavari was turned into a full-fledged primary school and St. Xavier's Jawalakhel was turned into a full-fledged high school.

It was an all-boys school until 1996, when another major decision turned St. Xavier's Godavari into a co-educational day school, focused on educating children from the local community, that would again become a high school.[1]

Present day

The school is still run according to Jesuit principles of education, even though Indian and Nepalese Jesuits have taken the place of the American founders.

St. Xavier's Godavari is one of four schools in Nepal operated by the Jesuits. The other three are St. Xavier's School, Jawalakhel (already mentioned) located in Lalitpur, and St. Xavier's College in Maitighar, both in Kathmandu Valley, while the other is St. Xavier's School, Jhapa.

Notable alumni

See also

References

  1. ↑ St. Xavier's School Godavari: "History". Retrieved February 26, 2010.


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