St Aloysius' Anglo-Indian High School is a Christian mission school in the city of

Visakhapatnam Visakhapatnam (; List of renamed places in India, formerly known as Vizagapatam, and also referred to as Vizag, Visakha, and Waltair) is the largest and most populous metropolitan city in the States and union territories of India, Indian stat ...

, Andhra Pradesh, India. It was founded in the year 1847, during the

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rule in India by the

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. The school was started for the purpose of educating

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soldiers' children. Nobel Laureate C. V. Raman was a student of the school.

About

St. Aloysius' was the first English medium school in

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. During the Colonial period, it was the only

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school between

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and

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