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South Point School (India), India

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6/1/1
Anil Maitra Rd
Ballygunge Place
Ballygunge
Kolkata
West Bengal 700019
India

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South Point School also known as SPS along with South Point High School also known as SPHS together constitute the South Point group of schools. It is Kolkata's first coeducational school. The school opened in the year, 1954 and introduced higher secondary level in 1960. The school split into two buildings with the high school shifting to Ballygunge Place in 1980.
South Point group of schools, consisting of the junior and senior divisions, made an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest educational institute in the world in 1984 till 1992. The existing South Point school in Kolkata of the M.P. Birla Group, which was, till recently, managed by R. S. Lodha, has around 13,500 regular students on its rolls, and is reported to be the second-largest school in the world. The EducationWorld - IMRB International Survey ranked South Point High School at fourth in their 2007 list of India's most respected schools.
The school currently operates out of Mandeville Gardens, where the junior wing is housed, and Ballygunge Place, the address for the high school, in the same neighbourhood. However it will be shifting from its current premises once its new campus in Mukundapur, behind the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute is ready.
The school offers education in English medium with Bengali and Hindi taught as vernaculars. Other subjects are taught as per the norms of the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education, the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education and the Central Board of Secondary Education.

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