Clarence High School (Bangalore, India)
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| Motto | Our Utmost for the Highest |
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| Established | 1914 |
| Type | High School |
| Principal | Dr. Jerry George |
| Chairman | Easho Jacob |
| Founder | Alfred and Walter Redwood |
| Location |
Pottery Road, Richard's Town, Bangalore Karnataka 560005 India |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Ages | 5–17 (approx.) |
| Houses | Barton, Theobald, Redwood, Wilcox |
| Colours | Blue and Yellow |
| Publication | The Clarencian |
| Website | www |
Clarence High School (CHS) is a school in Bangalore East for girls and boys. It is located in Richard's town in Bangalore and is for day scholars. It has classes from the preparatory level until the 12th grade and is in the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education syllabus.
Clarence High School is a minority institution founded in 1914 by the Redwood brothers, Alfred and Walter, two Englishmen, and named after their own school in Somerset, United Kingdom. The school was established with the intention of sound education based on Christian principles for the all-round development of students. The Redwoods left Bangalore in the 1960s and were no longer involved in the institution’s management. The school’s alumni raised money to construct the Flack Memorial Auditorium, named after one of the school’s former principals, A C Flack, who came from Australia in 1946.
In 2014, Clarence High School celebrated its Diamond Jubilee anniversary. This makes it the fourth Anglo-Indian origin school in Bangalore to reach the 100-year milestone, after St Joseph’s (1858), Bishop Cotton (1865) and Baldwin (1880) schools. Fr Jose Aikara CM, chairman of the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE), inaugurated the centenary celebrations.
Some of the former school principals are Mr. A. C. Flack, Dr David Coates, Mr. M. T. Thomas, Mr. Benny Joseph and Dr Jerry George.
For a while the school was located in a bungalow on Palm Road (now M. M. Road, near the Fraser Town Mosque). This building now houses the Fraser Town Post Office. The school is now located on Pottery Road, at a junction near Richard's Park. It lends its name to a bus stop for buses moving towards and from M. S. Nagar, Lingarajpuram, Banaswadi, Kammanahalli, Kalyannagar and Hennur. While the main gate faces Pottery Road, the side gates face Viviani Road and Mosque Road Extension. The fourth side faces apartments that line John Armstrong Road.
The school has a number of buildings, one of the newest among them being the William Carey block. This block has several of the classrooms, the laboratories, the physical education department, the music room and faces the playground field. The Coates library houses 9 000 books. There are a number of laboratories for the various science subjects (Chemistry, Biology, Physics and Computers). The Flack Memorial Assembly Hall can house around a thousand people. The kindergarten students have a separate block (KG Block) and playground. The Stewards Block, a building for the Special Needs Department, has a large clock on top which is visible from the roads adjacent to the school campus. The campus has several trees, the most prominent among them being a Christmas tree and a Peepul tree.
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