{"id":21,"date":"2023-12-13T03:00:33","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T03:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stanesschool.org\/stanes-icse\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2026-02-14T06:58:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T06:58:29","slug":"the-school","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stanesschool.org\/stanes-icse\/the-school\/","title":{"rendered":"The School"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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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\u2019s 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 \u2018pandal\u2019 attached to the Teacher\u2019s house.
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Thus in 1862, \u201cThe Coimbatore Day School\u201d was born. The beginning was small. A little house was rented near the Kumaran Market. The School had four pupils \u2013 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 \u201cCoimbatore Day School\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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and later as the \u201cStanes European High School\u201d, 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.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>

As then number of students grew, the need for the School was to establish system with a strong emphasis on Sports and Games. To achieve this, Sir Robert Stanes bought the present campus in 1927.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>

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. \u201cThe 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\u2019s Word, the Bible\u201d were Sir Robert Stanes\u2019words on the big day.<\/span><\/p>

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.<\/span><\/p>

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\u00a0 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 \u201cExcelsa Sequar\u201d (Aim for the Highest) and our masthead \u201c To God be the Glory.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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HISTORY OF THE CISCE<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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In 1952, the All-India Certificate Examinations Conference, under the\u00a0 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.\n
Mr. Frank Anthony, \u00a0Member of parliament\u00a0 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.<\/span><\/h6>\n
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 \u201cpublic\u201d examinations.<\/span><\/h6>\n
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\u00a0 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\u00a0 its distinctive Protestant Anglo Indian values and traditions lay down by our Founder, 160 years ago.<\/span><\/h6>\n
The school is a friendly,\u00a0 inclusive and highly reputed institution with the dream of skill standards, sustained\u00a0 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\u00a0 of academics, sports,\u00a0 extra-curricular activities, moral and spiritual guidance and where every child finds his own niche in life. We encourage\u00a0 and motivate\u00a0 our children to develop a loving, caring and respectable attitude towards teachers,\u00a0fellow students and school property.\u00a0<\/span><\/h6>\n
The mission of the Council for the Indian School Certificate Education is to \u201cserve the children of the nation through high quality educational endeavours, empowering them to contribute towards a humane,\u00a0 just and\u00a0 pluralistic society, promoting introspective living, by creating exciting learning opportunities, with the commitment to excellence.<\/span><\/h6>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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