Campion School Bhopal
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Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh India |
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| Coordinates | 23°12′16″N 77°25′47″E / 23.204432°N 77.429703°E |
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| Type | Private |
| Motto | Gaudium in Veritate (Joy in the Truth) |
| Established | 1965 |
| Principal | Athnas Lakhra |
| Student to teacher ratio | 1:60 |
| Campus | Urban |
| Affiliation | Catholic - Jesuits |
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Campion School, Bhopal, established in July 1965, is conducted by the members of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). This is a boys school, one of the oldest schools in Bhopal and considered among the best schools in the city. Its campus is spread over 49 acres (200,000 m2) of land in the locality of Arera Colony.
In July 1965, at the invitation of the Archbishop of Bhopal, Eugene D'Souza, Fr. Emmanuel Ferdinand More, a Spanish Jesuit belonging to the Jesuit Province of Mumbai, established a school which he named Campion School after St. Edmund Campion, a sixteenth-century English Jesuit who would also be the patron of the school.
The School moved from place to place to find a location with a proper school setting. The school held classes first at Seva Sadan, which had no room for expansion for the increasing number of students. Therefore, Fr. More, the first principal, negotiated with the government for leasing a larger piece of land about a 10-acre (40,000 m2) patch near No.10 bus stop. He built the school in a "barracks" fashion and extended the classes from Std IV to Std XI. It opened 17 July 1967. These buildings, "Old Campion", were returned to the government in 1974.
On 21 February 1969 Fr. More acquired 48.54 acres (196,400 m2) of land in Shahapura, the present site of Campion School, in the name of Bombay Xaverian Corporation. "The Campion School Society" was registered on 1 April 1972 and construction of the building began.
Campion School was moved into an incomplete building on the present site in July 1974. In the same year classes from KGI to Std. III were added. St. Mary's School, run by the sisters of PSOL (Poor Sisters of Our Lady), Mumbai, merged with Campion and its students both boys and girls were admitted to this school. Sr. Eleanor, PSOL, was the headmistress of the primary section. The girls studied at Campion for a year or two before they were admitted into St. Joseph’s, Idgah Hills, or Carmel, BHEL.
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