South Point School (SPS) or South Point High School (SPHS) is a co-educational private day school located in Kolkata, West Bengal. 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.
From March 30, 2011 the students were given choice to study either under West Bengal Board or CBSE. Till Class V the course remained the same and from Class VI according to their choice students can either go for state board or the central one.
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Notable alumni
- Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Professor of Economics, MIT
- Amitava Raychaudhuri, Professor of Physics, University of Calcutta
- Amit Kumar, Indian playback singer, actor, director and music director
- Supriya Chaudhuri, scholar of English literature
- Ritabrata Banerjee, politician, member of Rajya Sabha, India
- Bedabrata Pain, scientist and inventor
- Sucharit Sarkar, mathematician
- Bauddhayan Mukherji, filmmaker
- Koena Mitra, actor
- Pratim D. Gupta, film critic, filmmaker
- Rituparno Ghosh, National Film Award-winning filmmaker
- Sandip Ray, noted filmmaker (son of Satyajit Ray)
- Subrata Sen, filmmaker
- Srijit Mukherji, filmmaker
- Tanmoy Bose, percussionist and tabla player
- Sumit Ranjan Das, High energy physicist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
- Shamik Ghosh, Bengali Author
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References
External links
- Official website
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