193-year-old Scottish Church School in Kolkata to open doors for girls – Times of India

KOLKATA: Scottish Church Collegiate School is set to open its doors for girls students for the first time from January next year.

The co-education section of the 193-year-old school has been set up at the 18, Duff Street campus adjacent to Duff Church on Duff Street. The building where a Diocesan Kindergarten School was run earlier by the church was restored and has been made the third campus of the school after its Bidhan Sarani campus and Kestopur campus. It has been decided that a pre-primary and primary (Class I) section with a capacity of 30 students each will be started here. It will be affiliated to the Bengal board with English as the medium of instruction.

Bishop Paritosh Canning said, “We are very happy that this old school in north Kolkata is set to admit girl students from the next academic session 2024 that will be starting from January.”

School principal Bibhas Sanyal said, “This was a demand of the people staying around this area to open our doors for girls as well. Many of them asked us why are we so rigid and why are we not allowing girls to study here. After receiving so many requests we discussed the matter with the bishop and under his supervision we embarked on a new journey to create a new history before celebrating its 200 years.”

The school managing committee has decided that the doors will be open for Plus II girl students to study in Class IX and Class XII. “It was decided in our internal meeting to allow girls to join after Madhyamik. They will be allowed to take admission from 2024 session and will be accommodated at our main building on Bidhan Sarani,” Sanyal added.

Alexander Duff was the first overseas missionary of the Church of Scotland to India. On July 13, 1830 he founded the General Assembly’s Institution in Calcutta, now known as the Scottish Church College & Scottish Church Collegiate School.