St. Xavier's High School Loyola Hall
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Navrangpura, Ahmedabad India |
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| Motto | Teneris Impende Laborem (Apply yourself to Hard Work) |
| Established | 1956 |
| Principal | Fr. Charles |
| Headmaster | Mrs. Laxmi Iyer |
| Grades | medium primary, secondary |
| Affiliation | Jesuit (Catholic) |
| Website | loyolahallahd.com |
 St. Ignatius of Loyola |
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St. Xavier's High School, Loyola Hall, is an English-Gujarati medium primary and secondary school located at Navarangpura in Ahmedabad, India. The school is spread over a site of about 4 acres (16,000 m2).
Xavier includes K.G. and Std. 1 to 10 with parallel divisions having Gujarati and English medium of instruction. The school also runs standards 11 and 12 – Science and Commerce streams, the latter only in English medium – to which girls are also admitted. After academic year 2006-2007 girls were admitted starting from K.G.
St. Xavier's School, Loyola Hall, was initially only for standards 8 through 11; the primary section was initiated in 1968.
Geet Sethi, former World Billiards Champion, is an alumnus of the school. Other notable alumni include Mr. Bharat Desai, founder and owner of Syntel and Bimal Patel, and Mr. Mervin D'Souza, Geologist who led the 20th Indian Antarctica Expedition and a recipient of the National Mineral Award. , Dr. Keyur Parikh cardiologist and chairman CIMS Hospital, Mr. Kulin Lalbhai of Arvind Ltd, Manpreet Juneja cricketer were some of the many notable students of St. Xaviers Loyola Hall.
The motto is Teneris Impende Laborem (Latin), meaning Apply yourself to hard work.
Three white bees are symbols of hard work and being busy always. The fruit of such labour is sweet. IHS, the first three letters of "Jesus" in Greek, is written in the center of the sun, and is sometimes given the meaning Iesu (Jesus), Homo (mankind), and Salvator (saviour). IHS is the symbol of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) since their foundation under St. Ignatius of Loyola.
Academic Facilities include a complete library, bookstore, audio-visual rooms, and laboratories for physics, chemistry, biology, and computer science. There is also the Diamond Jubilee Auditorium. Sports facilities provide for cricket, football, hockey, tennis, basketball, paleta, and table tennis, besides skating rinks, a swimming pool, and the Brother Bou Pavilion.
Coordinates: 23°2′53.01″N 72°32′56.41″E / 23.0480583°N 72.5490028°E
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