Ispat English Medium School is an English medium school in Sector 20 of the Rourkela Steel Township in

Rourkela Rourkela is a planned city located in the northern district Sundargarh of Odisha, India. It is the third-largest Urban Agglomeration in Odisha after Bhubaneswar and Cuttack. It is situated about west of state capital Bhubaneswar and is surro ...

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. The school follows the syllabus prescribed by the

CISCE The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) is a privately held national-level board of school education in India that conducts the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) Examination for Class X and the India ...

History

Ispat English Medium School, the only

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institution under the

Steel Authority of India Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) is a central public sector undertaking based in New Delhi, India. It is under the ownership of Ministry of Steel, Government of India with an annual turnover of INR 1,03,480 Crore (US$13 billion) for fisc ...

(SAIL), Rourkela Steel Plant was founded in 1961 with 27 students, five teachers and two classrooms. It ran on the Indian Public School (IPS) system. The school has been affiliated with the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations, New Delhi since May 1964. It is one of the first schools established in

and the first to have English as the medium of instruction. Admission is only to children of parents working for SAIL, CISF, CRPF and other Central Government undertakings and REC.

About

In 1982 the institution started a Junior College (ISC +2) with a Science Stream. Its academic activities expanded with the new addition of a +2 Commerce stream from 2004. In 2011, the school celebrated the 50th anniversary of its founding.

Facilities

The school is a co-educational day-school and is run by the education department of SAIL. The school currently has 1500 students and sixty teachers.

Housing

The school is set up according to a house system. The four houses are:

References

External links

Official website

Council for Indian School Certificate Examinations
{{Education in Rourkela Primary schools in India High schools and secondary schools in Odisha Schools in Rourkela Educational institutions established in 1961 1961 establishments in Orissa