St Bonaventure's High School
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| Address | |
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Foujdari Road, Saddar Hyderabad, Sindh, 71000 Pakistan |
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| Coordinates | 25°23′37″N 68°22′03″E / 25.393515°N 68.367534°ECoordinates: 25°23′37″N 68°22′03″E / 25.393515°N 68.367534°E |
| Information | |
| Type | Primary school and High school |
| Motto | We hold the Fort |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Roman Catholic Church |
| Established | 1920s–1930s |
| Founder | Archilles Meersman |
| LEA |
Catholic Board of Education Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Hyderabad |
| Administration | Catholic Board of Education |
| Principals | Mr. Bertram DeSouza Mrs. Angela Desouza |
| Vice Principals | Mr. Abdul Rauf Sherani (City branch) Mr. Chukuel Samosa (Qasimabad branch) |
| Gender |
Boys (City branch) Boys and girls (Qasimabad branch) |
| Age | 4 to 15 |
| Enrollment | Established 2,000 in City branch (usually 200 students per class of three sections each) |
| Houses |
Ayub Jinnah Liaquat Tariq |
| Color(s) | White, atomic tangerine and brown |
| Affiliations |
Aga Khan University St Mary's Convent High School |
| Area |
Foujdari Road 117,040 sq ft (10,873 m2) Qasimabad 88,610 sq ft (8,232 m2) |
St Bonaventure's High School, or St Bonaventure's Boys High School, is a school located on Foujdari Road in Hyderabad in the Sindh province of Pakistan with another branch in the Qasimabad town. It is operated by the Roman Catholic diocese of Hyderabad.
In the years between the 1920s and early 1930s the missionary establishments in the southern Indian subcontinent laid foundations for a school in Hyderabad run by the church to impart education to the masses. It was, however, during the years of the partition and the formation of the nation of Pakistan (1945–1948), Archilles Meersman, a parish priest, born to a Dutch mother and a Belgian father, at the Franciscan seminary at Karachi, built the new school. With deeply rooted Franciscan ideologies, Archilles named the school after the saint Bonaventure of Bagnoregio. Although some suggest that the school was named after the Rt. Rev. Bonaventure Patrick Paul, former bishop of Hyderabad. It was later given the status of a high school after the partition and was formally called St Bonaventure's High School.
The Catholic Board of Education took charge of the development and running of the school and erected a church in the memory of Saint Francis Xavier for his services in Central Asia and India. The church and the school buildings are regarded as cultural heritage monuments in Hyderabad. Formerly a coeducational institution, the school was divided into two schools, one for boys and one for girls named St Mary's Convent High School. Running under a Christian administration, the schools imparted education to upper and middle class students until the 1970s when these were nationalised and taken over by the socialist government of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.
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