Jenkins School
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Silver Jubilee Avenue, Cooch Behar - 736101 Cooch Behar, West Bengal, India 
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| Type | Government school |
| Motto | 'Shraddhavan Labhate Gyanam!!' |
| Established | 1861 |
| Founder | His Highness Maharaja Narendra Narayan, The Maharaja of Cooch Behar |
| Faculty | 43 |
| Gender | Male |
| Number of students | 1400 |
| Language | Bengali |
| Color(s) | White and olive green |
| Affiliation | WBBSE and WBCHSE |
| Information | +91 3582 222505 |
| Alumni Association | JSAA |
| Website | Official website |
Jenkins School is a boys school in the Indian state of West Bengal. It was established in 1861 in the town of Cooch Behar.
King Maharaja Narendra Narayan had an interest in education and arranged for a modern education system in Cooch Behar. He established Jenkins School to teach English and other studies.
The school was named after Major Gen. Francis Jenkins, an alumnus of Oxford University and the nommissioner of Assam and official agent of the Governor General of Bengal for Assam frontier (now North-East India). Jenkins was fond of people of Cooch Bihar, Assam and the eastern region, After retirement he never went back to England and settled down at Gauhati. He died of fever on 28 August 1966. At that time there was no high school in the region. Starting from 3rd standard, students can study up to 12th standard.
After the independence of India in 1947, the princely state of Cooch Behar was merged with India in 1950 as Cooch Behar district within West Bengal, and Jenkins School was declared as one of the state government schools. During that period many teachers joined the school under the patronage of the then king of Cooch Behar, Maharaja Jagaddipendra Narayan and the government of West Bengal. Between the late 1940s and the early 1960s, the school flourished under the leadership of headmaster Kalipada Mukherjee. The Maharaja also employed Sailen Datta, a veteran cricketer of the Bengal cricket team for the upliftment of sports education in the school.
The National Award for Teachers was given to Prabodh Chandra Goswami, a popular mathematics teacher in Jenkins School in 1958, the first year that the award was instituted.
The 100-year anniversary of Jenkins School was celebrated in January 1961. January 2011 saw the celebration of 150 years of the institution.
The first line of the school anthem is "Moder Jenkins School, Biharo Tirthe Amar-o Kirti, Banir Punnyo Deoul…."
Students wear white shirts, olive green pants and a black school shoe, with an emblem olive green tie. Olive green sweater or blazer is additional for winter.
The school has nearly 83% of students securing 1st division with regular names among the toppers in the madhyamik pariksha and nearly 81% students securing 1st division marks with names consistently figuring in the toppers list in uchcho Madhyamik pariksha. In all India entrance exams (like PMT, AIIMS, Indian Institute of Technology, National Institute of Technology etc.) and West Bengal Joint Entrance Examinations, students secure good ranks.
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