, motto_translation = "Follow the Light" , established = , founders =

Irish Christian Brothers The Congregation of Christian Brothers ( la, Congregatio Fratrum Christianorum; abbreviated CFC) is a worldwide religious community within the Catholic Church, founded by Blessed Edmund Rice. Their first school was opened in Waterford, Ireland, ...

, oversight = Simla Chandigarh Diocese , religious_affiliation =

Roman Catholic Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD *Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lette ...

, closed = , type =

Convent school Catholic schools are pre-primary, primary and secondary educational institutions administered under the aegis or in association with the Catholic Church. , the Catholic Church operates the world's largest religious, non-governmental school syste ...

, patron = St. Edward , affiliation = CBSE 2008 onwards

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 ...

until 2008 , accreditation =

AISSCE The All India Senior School Certificate Examination (AISSCE) also called Class 12 Board Exams in common language, is the final examination conducted every year for high school students by the Central Board of Secondary Education on behalf of the ...

AISSE All India Secondary School Examination, commonly known as board exams, is a centralized public examination that students in schools affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education in India take after class 10. The board conducts the ex ...

, medium = English , district =

Shimla Shimla (; ; also known as Simla, List of renamed Indian cities and states#Himachal Pradesh, the official name until 1972) is the capital and the largest city of the States and union territories of India, northern Indian state of Himachal Prade ...

, grades = Nursery - Class XII , president = Ignatius Loyola Mascarenhas , principal = Fr. Anil Wilson Sequeira , alumni = Old Edwardians , head of school = , dean = , faculty = , staff = 75 , students = Approx. 2000 , enrollment = , gender =

Boys A boy is a young male human. The term is commonly used for a child or an adolescent. When a male human reaches adulthood, he is described as a man. Definition, etymology, and use According to the ''Merriam-Webster Dictionary'', a boy is "a ...

, athletics = , conference = , colors = , colours =
Navy blue, green & yellow , mascot = , campus type =

Urban Urban means "related to a city". In that sense, the term may refer to: * Urban area, geographical area distinct from rural areas * Urban culture, the culture of towns and cities Urban may also refer to: General * Urban (name), a list of people ...

, campus size = , free_label = , free_text = , houses = , yearbook = ''The Edwardian Voices'' , rival = Bishop Cotton School , streetaddress = Milsington Estate, Cart Road , city =

, state =

Himachal Pradesh Himachal Pradesh (; ; "Snow-laden Mountain Province") is a state in the northern part of India. Situated in the Western Himalayas, it is one of the thirteen mountain states and is characterized by an extreme landscape featuring several peaks ...

, zipcode = 171001 , country =

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

, coordinates = , tuition = ₹52,660 - ₹58,200 , information = , website = St. Edward's School is a premier convent school located at Milsington Estate,

, India. It is a boys-only day school. St. Edward's has been ranked among the top schools in India. It was initially affiliated to

but was changed over to the Central Board of Secondary Education ( CBSE) system in 2008. Today the School is managed by Simla Chandigarh Educational Society, under the

Bishop A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ...

of Simla Chandigarh Diocese. The school offers education from Nursery to Class XII.

House Club System

All students are placed in one of the four

houses A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air condi ...

named after the Four Evangelists: St. Mark's House, St. Luke's House, St. Matthew's House and St. John's House. Each house is led by a captain and a vice-captain, who are responsible for organizing and conducting various co-curricular activities in the school. They are usually chosen on the basis of their academic performance in addition to their participation in

sport Sport pertains to any form of Competition, competitive physical activity or game that aims to use, maintain, or improve physical ability and Skill, skills while providing enjoyment to participants and, in some cases, entertainment to specta ...

s and

cultural Culture () is an umbrella term which encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and Social norm, norms found in human Society, societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, Social norm, customs, capabilities, and habits of the ...

activities. Apart from the house captains, there are also a school captain and a vice-captain. Various clubs form a central part of holistic learning in the school, namely the

club,

science Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for ...

and

maths Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

club,

literary Literature is any collection of Writing, written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to ...

club,

s club, eco club and

yoga Yoga (; sa, योग, lit=yoke' or 'union ) is a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India and aim to control (yoke) and still the mind, recognizing a detached witness-consciou ...

Controversy

The school landed itself in a controversy in 2012 by not allowing a

Sikh Sikhs ( or ; pa, ਸਿੱਖ, ' ) are people who adhere to Sikhism, Sikhism (Sikhi), a Monotheism, monotheistic religion that originated in the late 15th century in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, based on the revelation of Gu ...

student to wear a

turban A turban (from Persian دولبند‌, ''dulband''; via Middle French ''turbant'') is a type of headwear based on cloth winding. Featuring many variations, it is worn as customary headwear by people of various cultures. Communities with promine ...

in school. The issue was settled after the intervention of the government.

Notable alumni

Mohammad Hamid Ansari Mohammad Hamid Ansari (; born 1 April 1937) is an Indian politician and retired Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer who was the 12th vice president of India from 2007 to 2017. Ansari joined the IFS in 1961. In a diplomatic career spanning 3 ...

, former Vice President, India *

Bipin Rawat General Bipin Rawat (16 March 1958 – 8 December 2021) was an Indian military officer who was a four-star general of the Indian Army. He served as the first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) of the Indian Armed Forces from January 2020 unt ...

, former Chief of Defence Staff, Indian Armed Forces & former Chief of Army Staff, Indian Army *

Ajay Banga Ajaypal Singh Banga (born November 10, 1959) is an Indian-American business executive. He is currently Vice Chairman at General Atlantic. He was executive chairman of Mastercard, after having previously served as president and chief executive off ...

, President, World Bank & ex-CEO, Mastercard *

Virbhadra Singh Virbhadra Singh () (23 June 19348 July 2021) was an Indian politician who served 6 terms and 21 years as the 4th Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh. A leader of the Indian National Congress party, he was elected 9 times as a Member of Legislat ...

, former Chief Minister, Himachal Pradesh *

Kanwar Pal Singh Gill Kanwar Pal Singh Gill (29 December 1934 – 26 May 2017) was an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer. He served twice as DGP for the state of Punjab, India, where he is credited with having brought the Punjab insurgency under control. While man ...

, ex-DGP, Punjab Police * Reginald Massey, author * Deepak Gupta, former Judge, Supreme Court of India *

Sanjay Karol Sanjay Karol (born: 23 August 1961) is a judge of the Supreme Court of India. He is a former chief justice of the Patna High Court and Tripura High Court. He has also served as judge and acting chief justice of the Himachal Pradesh High Court. ...

, Judge, Supreme Court of India *

Sudhir Kakar Sudhir Kakar (born 25 July 1938) is an Indian psychoanalyst, novelist and author in the fields of cultural psychology and the psychology of religion. Education and personal life Kakar spent his early childhood near Sargodha, now in Pakistan and ...

, psychoanalyst and author *

Ashok Sukumaran Ashok Sukumaran is a Japanese-born Indian contemporary artist. Biography Sukumaran was born to a Japanese mother and an Indian Assamese father in Sapporo, Japan in 1974. Sukumaran grew up in Shimla and did his schooling from St. Edward's Schoo ...

, media artist * Anil Wilson, former Vice-Chancellor, Himachal Pradesh University * Vijay Kumar Berry, Maha Vir Chakra recipient * Raj Mohan Vohra, Maha Vir Chakra recipient & Commander of the Eastern Command, Indian Army *

Antony Jameson Guy Antony Jameson, Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS, FREng (born 20 November 1934, Gillingham, Kent) is Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University. Jameson is known for his pioneering work in the field of comp ...

, Professor of Engineering in the Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Stanford University, USA *

Pratap Bhanu Mehta Pratap Bhanu Mehta (born 1967) is an Indian academician. He was the president of the Centre for Policy Research, a New Delhi-based think tank and was the Vice-Chancellor of Ashoka University from July 2017 to July 2019. Early life Pratap was bo ...

, former Vice Chancellor, Ashoka University & former President, Centre for Policy Research *

Ashok Chopra Ashok Chopra (born 26 February 1949) is a publisher, author, editor, and literary columnist. Author of ''Memories of Fire: A Novel,'' ''A Scrapbook of Memories: My Life with the Rich, the Famous and the Scandalous'' and ''Of Love and Other Sorrow ...

, journalist and author * Anirudh Singh, Cabinet Minister, Government of Himachal Pradesh

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Saint Edward's School, Shimla Educational institutions established in 1925 Christian schools in Himachal Pradesh Education in Shimla Schools in Colonial India Catholic boarding schools in India Boarding schools in Himachal Pradesh 1925 establishments in India Schools in Shimla district British-era buildings in Himachal Pradesh

House Club System

Controversy

Notable alumni

See also

References

External links