Oak Grove School, Jharipani, Mussoorie is a residential public school, owned and run by the Indian Railways. It is situated on hill tops covering in Jharipani,

Mussoorie Mussoorie () is a hill station and a municipal board, in Dehradun city in the Dehradun district of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is about from the state capital of Dehradun and north of the national capital of New Delhi. The hil ...

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The school was started by the

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on 1 June 1888. The students predominantly consist of the children of

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employees; 25% of seats are reserved for outsiders. At present there are more than 610 students. The school consists of three semi-independent parts — Oak Grove Sr. Boys' School (commenced 1888), Oak Grove Sr. Girls' School (1890s) and Oak Grove Junior School (1912). The buildings were designed by the chief engineer of EIR Mr. Richard Roskell Bayne and are built in

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of architecture. LBSNAA ( Lal Bahadur Shashtri National Academy of Administration) conducted its sports day several times in the valley of Oak Grove School.

Administration

The overall functioning of the school is under the control of a Board of Governors, which frames and reviews policies to ensure smooth and efficient functioning of the institution during its annual meetings. The BOG consists of: Chairman - General Manager, Northern Railway Executive Governor - The Chief Personnel Officer, Northern Railway Member - The Chief Engineer, Northern Railway Member - The F.A. & C.A.O., Northern Railway Member - The C.M.D., Northern Railway Member - The S.D.G.M., Northern Railway Member - The D.R.M., Northern Railway, Moradabad Secretary - Principal, Oak Grove School

Principals' Timeline

Oakgrovians at the Olympic games

Several Oak Grove students represented pre-independence India (under the British Raj) in field hockey at the Olympics between 1928 Amsterdam to 1936 Berlin Olympics, winning Gold medal each time. These were: Amsterdam Olympics – 1928 * Richard James Allen ⁺ - ^# Goalkeeper * Leslie Charles Hammond * Broome Eric Pinniger Los Angeles Olympics – 1932 * Richard James Allen ⁺ - ^# Goalkeeper * Leslie Charles Hammond * Broome Eric Pinniger * Richard Carr Berlin Olympics – 1936 * Richard James Allen ⁺ - ^# Goalkeeper

References

External links

* Alumni Corner, http://www.oakgrovian.info/ * Oakgrovians Young & Old, http://www.oakgrovians.com {{coord missing, Uttarakhand Railway schools in India Schools in Colonial India High schools and secondary schools in Uttarakhand Boarding schools in Uttarakhand Education in Dehradun district Mussoorie Educational institutions established in 1888 1888 establishments in India