Ida Scudder School is a private, non-residential, co-educational school located at Kalinjur in

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. The school is affiliated with Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE), and has classes from Std.1 to

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History

The school is named after the American medical missionary, Dr.

Ida S. Scudder Dr. Ida Sophia Scudder (December 9, 1870 – May 24, 1960) was a third-generation American medical missionary in India. She dedicated her life to the plight of Indian women and the fight against bubonic plague, cholera and leprosy. In 1918, sh ...

, who founded the

Christian Medical College Christian Medical College, Vellore, widely known as CMC, Vellore, is a private, Christian community-run medical school, hospital and research institute. This Institute includes a network of primary, secondary and tertiary care hospitals in a ...

, Vellore. The school was started on 13 June 1969 by a group of faculty of the Christian Medical College, when there were only a few schools in Vellore. The initial capital for this venture was raised by the faculty by providing a month's salary of theirs. The salary for the employees in the initial months were paid by some parents.

Affiliations

The school is affiliated to Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE),

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. Students are prepared for the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) examinations at the

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level, and for the Indian School Certificate (ISC) examinations at the

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level.

Annual events

Some of the events organised around the year include the annual

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, the variety entertainment show,

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and

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talent shows, farewells, IHA's and the

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program.

Academic and extra-curricular performance

The school has performed and won prizes at state and national levels. The school won the first rank in

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in the State-level Science Talent Search Examination conducted for Sixth Standard students by the Unified Council in 2008. The school also won the overall championship trophy in the mathematical competition for school students conducted by the VIT University in 2011. About 810 students from 25 schools took part in the contest. In 2007–2008, the school won the state ISC/ICSE championships in basketball, athletics, and were the semi-finalists in basketball at the all India inter-ICSE school competitions. Recently the school basketball team won the ASISC National Basketball Competition.

References

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