SBOA Matriculation and Higher Secondary School, Chennai is one of the schools run by the SBIOA Education Trust of the State Bank of India Officers Association in Anna Nagar Western Extension,

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. The school educates students from LKG to class XII. It offers education as per the matriculation and Higher Secondary board of Tamil Nadu in English medium.

History

The SBIOA Educational Trust was founded in 1978 E. A. G. Moses, then general secretary of the

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. The SBOA School & Junior College affiliated to the CBSE board was then started for the educating bank's officers' children. In 1983, the SBIOA Educational Trust started a new school providing education in

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board syllabus on the same campus and called it the SBOA Matriculation and Higher Secondary School.ShickShack.com, Information page
/ref> The school was moved to its current location in 1994. Later, the school acquired the then defunct Sri Chakra School nearby and developed it into an annexe campus.

Campuses

Main Campus houses classes from Standard IX to standard XII and the annexe houses classes from Standard I to VIII, primary and High school and also has a playground.

Student life

The school runs several clubs including Road Safety Patrol (RSP), Junior Red Cross (JRC), Scouts and Guides, National Cadet Corps (NCC), Interact club, School band and Skills for Adolescents (SFA). Activities are organized under four houses named after the major kingdoms in

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history. Students are placed in one of the four houses, with the teachers to guide them. The four houses of the school are namely, Cheran, Cholan, Pandian and Pallavan. The school has 2 libraries, one in each campus, which are fully air-conditioned and open till 5:30 PM. The annexe campus has an indoor shuttle court, an open-air auditorium and a basketball court. The main campus has a huge open space in the middle, around which the campus is built in a courtyard fashion. The main campus also has an extensive collection of exotic plant species in the roof garden.

Notable alumni

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, Film actor * Shree Karthick, film director *

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References

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