- Julien Day School
Julien Day School is in
Kolkata ,West Bengal ,India .Julien Day School is centrally located at Elgin Road in the city of
Kolkata . Elgin Road is also known as Lala Lajpat Rai Sarani.The School started at 35E Elgin Road in 1969. The school had a Branch at Townsend Road, one at Ganganagar started in 1976 and much later another one at
Kalyani, West Bengal in 1988. "The School has decided to start another branch on 11 acres inHowrah by the end of 2009. It has not been decided yet whether the branch will be affiliated to either of the Delhi boards or the West Bengal board. The foundation stone of the institution was laid on December 19 2006. The School is also considering setting up of a technology college inHowrah . The existing three branches of the School cater to 6,000 students." [The Telegraph (Kolkata) ] . Julien Day School is a Co-Education school i.e. it caters for both boys and girls.The school was founded by the Mr. George and Mrs. Sheila Broughton in Kolkata and is affiliated to
Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (ICSE ),New Delhi andWest Bengal Board of Secondary Education (Madhyamik ). The medium of instruction is English. Bengali and Hindi are compulsory subjects. Currently the school has three branches, the fourth one in Townsend Road being closed down in the 1990's amidst much controversy.Mr Jayanta Kumar Sen, Miss Maya Chatterjee, Mrs Jayatee Solomon were some of the teachers who went on to become Head Master/Head Mistress of the school at different times.
Notable rationalist and humanist Debashis Chatterjee also studied in this school.
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