About Us
Stanes Anglo-Indian Higher Secondary School has a very rich and hoary history, from its humble inceptions to its present day stature. Stanes School was started by its Founder, Sir Robert Stanes, a pioneering English planter and industrialist in 1862. He was anxious to help his Anglo-Indian employee’s children in their education and initially started a Scripture Study School. Finding the need to educate them in English, he decided to start a Day School, which he did under a ‘pandal’ attached to the Teacher’s house.
Thus in 1862, “The Coimbatore Day School” was born. The beginning was small. A little house was rented near the Kumaran Market. The School had four pupils – two girls and two boys and two Teachers. From there, the School moved to premises adjacent to and now occupied by the General Post Office and operated there for more than 50 years, first as the “Coimbatore Day School” and later as the “Stanes European High School”, a co-educational residential institution. It celebrated its Golden Jubilee in 1912 with its Founder, marveling at its wonderful growth which he had not envisaged at its inception.
As the number of students grew, the need for the School was to establish a holistic educational system with a strong emphasis on Sports and Games.
To achieve this, Sir Robert Stanes bought the present campus in 1927. The School in its new campus was inaugurated in 1928 by the Governor General of Madras, The Viscount Goschen of Hawkhurst, in a grand manner. The School has ever been noted as an Anglo-Indian Protestant Evangelical School, where the Word of God is read and taught daily. “The unseen foundation of the new building was being laid on the The School has grown phenomenally in every sphere of School education. It is renowned as being one of the oldest and best Public Schools in the country.solid ground of God’s Word, the Bible” were Sir Robert Stanes’words on the big day.
The School has grown phenomenally in every sphere of School education. It is renowned as being one of the oldest and best Public Schools in the country.
With the demand for new Board Examinations, the Stanes ICSE/ISC School was established in 2012, affiliated to the Council for Indian School Certificate Examinations and the Stanes CBSE School was established in 2016, affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education. Both Schools in a very short time have established themselves as the premier institutions of their respective Boards in Coimbatore. The Anglo-Indian Higher Secondary School continues to follow the State
Board syllabus. Over the last 163 years, our esteemed Institutions are alma mater to a galaxy of renowned achievers and highly accomplished leaders in every walk of life, from sporting success to the professions, entrepreneurship and public life. Stanes proudly continues its goal of producing dedicated, good citizens of India, ever keeping in mind its motto “Excelsa Sequar” (Aim for the Highest) and our masthead “ To God be the Glory.”
History of icse
In 1952, the All-India Certificate Examinations Conference, under the Chairmanship of Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad, Minister of Education proposed to consider the replacement of the overseas Cambridge School Certificate Examinations with an All India Examination.
Mr. Frank Anthony, Member of parliament already initiated the Inter State Board for Anglo Indian education and he asked the Semi Cambridge exams can be handed to the Inter State Board which the British government agree to.
In 1967, the Council was registered as society under Societies Registration Act of 1860. In 1973 the Council was listed in the Delhi School Education Act 1973, as a body conducting “public” examinations.
In 2012, the Tamil Nadu government merged the Anglo Indian High School Exam with the State Education Board/ At this time there was a representation from the parents of Stanes School to retain the Anglo Indian identity. The parents requested the Stanes management to start a co-educational ICSE school to maintain the high standards of education of Anglo Indian students. Stanes ICSE school was started in 2012 and has grown from strength to strength over the years.Our School maintains its distinctive Protestant Anglo Indian values and traditions lay down by our Founder, 160 years ago.
The school is a friendly, inclusive and highly reputed institution with the dream of skill standards, sustained initiative, empowered ownership and management quality in a language that parents, students and society expect. The aim of the school is to be microcosm where a child meets myriad experiences of life, a school where would find a perfect blend of academics, sports, extra-curricular activities, moral and spiritual guidance and where every child finds his own niche in life. We encourage and motivate our children to develop a loving, caring and respectable attitude towards teachers, fellow students and school property.
The mission of the Council for the Indian School Certificate Education is to “serve the children of the nation through high quality educational endeavours, empowering them to contribute towards a humane, just and pluralistic society, promoting introspective living, by creating exciting learning opportunities, with the commitment to excellence.