Our Lady of Perpetual Succour High School, also known as OLPS High School, is a school for boys in

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, India. The school celebrates its annual feast on 27 June as the feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help. It is one of top schools in

. It has alumni across industries including the

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film industry, cricket, television, music and authors.

History

Our Lady of Perpetual Succour High School was established in 1954 by the Redemptorists. The first principal of the school was late Fr. Brian McGrath (1930-2019). Our Lady of Perpetual Help is the patron of the school.

Infrastructure

The school campus hosts contemporary facilities to support the academic and extracurricular pursuits of the students. These include spacious classrooms with audio visual aid, state-of-the-art science and computer laboratories, well stocked library featuring a huge collection of books on various subjects and a canteen for students within the school campus. The school has adequate security within the school premises with well-maintained CCTV cameras. The school also offers a football ground, a quadrangle, facilities for badminton, cricket, basketball and a dome area on the terrace for sapling plantations. The school is adjoining the Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Church.

Curriculum and activities

The school is affiliated to the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education for Class One to Tenth Class. It also has

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for boys. The medium of instruction is

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. The students are grouped into four houses: St. Gerard (Blue); St. Alphonsus (Yellow); St. Clement (Green); and

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(Red). Sports activities include

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, and

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. OLPS students have consistently excelled in sporting events. The school band has won many competitions across Mumbai.

Program for Learning Disability

In 2016, the batch of 1988 funded a program called "Mentoring Champs Learning Center" which caters to children who have various leaning disabilities, from nursery up to 7th standard (10 classes). Between 2016 and 2022 the program supported 195 students.

Staff

The school is administered by the manager Fr. Henry Fernandes CSsR, along with the help of Asst. Manager, Fr. Juvance Serrao CssR for both primary and secondary sections.

Secondary section

* Head Mistress - Sr. Sheeja Kunjumon SCB (2022-)

Primary section

* Head Mistress - Sr. Elizabeth Leo (2021-)

Notable alumni

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, actor. *

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, television and film actor *

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, actor *

Shankar Mahadevan Shankar Mahadevan (born 3 March 1967) is an Indian singer and composer who is part of the Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy trio that writes music for Indian films. Personal life and early career Shankar Mahadevan was born in Chembur, Mumbai into a Tami ...

, music composer and singer *

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, test cricketer * Devdutt Pattanaik, author, mythologist, and leadership consultant *

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, music composer *

Aditya Tare Aditya Prakash Tare (born 7 November 1987) is an Indian cricketer. He is a wicketkeeper batsman who played for Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League and for Uttarakhand in domestic cricket. Tare made his first-class debut in 2009, and I ...

, cricketer for

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, badminton player

References

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