Holy Cross High School is a school located in

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, a suburb of

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. It prepares students for the Secondary School Leaving Certificate examinations conducted by the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education.

About Holy Cross School & It's History

Holy Cross High School (affiliated to Archdiocesan Board of Education) is a Private, Aided, Minority School. It is a coeducational school. The school was established in the year 1901. The school celebrated its centenary year in 2001 with a grand celebration. Thousands of students have passed through Holy Cross High School Kurla and excelled in all walks of life. The school is run by the Catholic parish of Holy Cross Church, Kurla and teaches in English and Marathi. Its primary school (standards 1st to 4th) is privately run while the secondary section (5th to 10th standard) is government-aided. The School has a total strength of approximate 6000 students from the KG, Primary and Secondary section. The number of children in the KG section is around 1000. The Primary has over 2000 students and the secondary section has over 3000 students.

Our Mission

“Students of today; leaders of tomorrow”

Our Vision

To empower students to acquire, demonstrate, articulate and value knowledge that will support them, as life-long learners and to encourage our students to develop leadership skills that will hold them in good stead as they grow up.

Management

The school is run by the Catholic

parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or m ...

Holy Cross Church, Kurla Holy Cross Church, Kurla is a Roman Catholic Church in Kurla, a suburb of Mumbai, India. It was built during the Portuguese era by the Jesuits in 1588 and rebuilt in 1848. It is one of the oldest churches in Mumbai. The church belongs to the Ar ...

and teaches in

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and

Marathi Marathi may refer to: *Marathi people, an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Maharashtra, India *Marathi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people *Palaiosouda, also known as Marathi, a small island in Greece See also * * ...

. Its primary school (standards 1st to 4th) is privately run while the secondary section (5th to 10th standard) is government-aided.

Location

Holy Cross High School is situated on Premier Road, off

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, opposite Kohinoor city in Kurla (West), 2.5 km from Kurla railway station and 1.6 km from

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(west).This school is very close to the popular Phoenix Market City Mumbai

References

External links

Alumni Portal
- Hosted by ex-students (registration reqd.) * {{Official website, http://holycrosskurla.com/, name=HolyCrossKurla.com Catholic secondary schools in India Christian schools in Maharashtra High schools and secondary schools in Mumbai Educational institutions established in 1901 1901 establishments in India