Karachi Grammar School
| Karachi Grammar School | |
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Indocti Discant
Let the Unlearned Learn
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| Location | |
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Karachi, Sindh Pakistan |
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| Information | |
| School type | Independent school, Church school, Day school, Selective school |
| Religious affiliation(s) |
Anglican Church of Pakistan (formerly Church of England) |
| Founded | 1847 |
| Founder | The Rev. Henry Brereton, M.A. |
| Principal | Mr. C. N. Wrigley, M.B.E. |
| Gender | Co-educational |
| Age | 3 to 19 |
| Houses |
Frere Napier Papworth Streeton |
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| Motto |
Lucerna Meis Pedibus A light to my feet |
| Alumni | Old Grammarians www.ogs.com.pk (Unofficial and obsolete) |
| Website | www.kgs.edu.pk |
Karachi Grammar School is an independent, English-medium school in Saddar, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. It is a highly selective, coeducational day school (formerly day/boarding school) serving approximately 2,400 students aged between three and nineteen years.
Established in 1847 by the Reverend Henry Brereton, the first chaplain of Karachi, as a school for "English and Anglo-Indo children", it is the oldest private school in Pakistan and the second oldest in South Asia, a member of the Winchester International Symposium and a former member of the Headmaster's Conference.
Since the 1980s, Karachi Grammar School has expanded from a school with a population of a few hundred students to a large institution that now occupies three sites and teaches more than two thousand students.
Karachi Grammar School was founded as the Anglo-Indian School in 1847. It remained the only non-native school in the town until the founding of St Patrick's High School was founded in 1861, followed by St. Joseph's Convent School, Karachi in 1862 and Manora School in 1866. Reverend Henry Brereton, the First Chaplain of Karachi, established the school and provided the early accommodation for the school at his private residence, with the first classes taking place in his kitchen. The class formed by the Chaplain was at first small enough to be accommodated in this modest premises, however the smooth running of this school over the next seven years was disturbed by rumours of Brereton not being a "good master" and his performance as a manager unsatisfactory.
Looking into this matter, on 27 July 1854 the Commissioner Bartle Frere summoned a public meeting with a view of establishing an institution that provided 'good secular instruction to children of all sects'. In this meeting funds were collected through subscriptions to establish a school, a managing committee was appointed and rules were framed that later became the basis for the present Constitution of KGS. It was the newly appointed managing committee that decided to purchase the Mess House of Her Majesty's 64th Regiment at No. 24 Depot Lines, which is at the site of the present day Middle School. The reorganized school was formally opened on 1 November 1854 as "The Kurrachee European and Indo-European School".
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