Murree Christian School

Murree Christian School Logo This is the most recent MCS logo. The logo includes the Murree hills, the trinity symbol, Christ's cross, and a torch that symbolizes the Godly perspective of education that MCS strives for. The exact origins of the logo are unknown, but the last changes to the logo were done by a student attending MCS.

Murree Christian School is a small private boarding school founded in 1956, currently open for children in grades 4–12. It is a founding member of the South Asian Inter-Scholastic Association (SAISA) in 1972, and remains a highly regarded educational institution in Pakistan. It is located near the resort town of Murree, Pakistan, at over 7000 ft. elevation in the foothills of the Himalayan mountains in Pakistan. The main high school building, made of stone, is a former garrison Church, serving as a Church of Scotland congregation for British soldiers in training in the hill station of Murree, until the church was given to the Anglican Diocese of Lahore during Partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, but was not used until the newly formed Murree Christian School started renovating and refurbishing the deconsecrated church. Several other buildings are used as elementary classrooms, staff housing as well as boarding hostels (dorms). Until 2011, high school boys were housed at a building which was formerly Sandes Soldiers Home, for convalescent soldiers of the British Indian Army.

Murree Christian School is one of the better known international boarding schools on the Indian Subcontinent, established to serve the needs of the expatriate communities in and around Pakistan after the Partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 made it increasingly difficult for children to continue to attend other similar schools in India such as in Mussoorie, and Hebron School in Ootacamund, and Kodaikanal International School in Kodaikanal. Attendance in the early 1960s quickly rose to over 100 pupils and the first graduating class was celebrated in 1964. Through the 1970s and up until 2001, the school boasted a multinational community of over 150 students and over 50 expatriate staff from over 25 countries. The terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 in the United States of America resulted in unrest and violence across the region. Subsequently many expatriate workers were forced to evacuate and the school had to close down temporarily. Classes resumed in February 2002, and by the start of the new academic year in August 2002 enrolment was back at over 150 students.