Govt. Model Higher Secondary School

Govt. Model Higher Secondary School, (earlier called Govt. Model High School) is a premier institution located in Thycaud, Thiruvananthapuram. The school is affiliated to the Kerala State Board of Education.

History

The school was started in 1905 by Venkateshwara Iyer. Later, in 1911 a royal teachers training college was also started which works in conjunction with the school. The high school and training college were inaugurated by P.Rajagopalachari, the then Diwan(Chief Minister) of Travancore. During the early days, the school prospered under the able leadership of an eminent English educationalist, Dr.G.F.Clarke who was also the first principal of the training college.Sai Badarayanachar was the first head master of the school.

The School Today

The school has grown in leaps and bounds from its humble, yet strong beginnings. Today, the school boasts of over 4500 students from classes from one to twelve (popularly known as +2) who are being educated by a teaching staff of over 150.The school has multiple buildings to house the students - From the imperialistic main building, to the newly created modern PTA Building.The school seats around 500 students every year for the SSLC and Higher Secondary Exams with extremely good results.

Apart from curricular activities, students here are offered training in arts, sports and other nationalist activities by world class faculties. Especially for music, All India Radio fame, Sri. Parvathipuram Padmanabha Iyer is the chief faculty.

Model School comes under 2 Kerala battalion of NCC. This school have given lot of military officials like Praveen VL.

Higher Secondary School

When the Kerala State Board of Education decided to move the 2 year intermediate course, between High School and University from colleges to schools in the year 1998, Model School was also part of the program. As part of this change, the name of the school was also changed to Govt. Model Higher Secondary School.

Famous Alumni from this school

To name a few

Movie actor-Mohan Lal

Parlamentarian-S Krishnakumar

Playback Singer-G. Venugopal

Movie actor-Maniyan Pillai Raju

Movie director-Priyadarsan

Playback Singer-M. G. Sreekumar

Army Official - Praveen VL

Scientist - Sani Abhilash

Economist - Ajesh V

Computer Eng - Hari Krishnan

Young talented musician - Balabhaskar

External links

* [http://www.modelschool.org School Official Website]
* [http://www.dhsekerala.org/ Dept. of Higher Secondary Education, Kerala]