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Campus School is a co-ed school located in the university campus of Pantnagar district Udham Singh Nagar, previously district Nainital Uttarakhand. It was established in 1971 by the Sisters of Notre Dame on invitation of Pantnagar University. The school, affiliated to Central Board of Secondary Education, caters mostly to the children of people working in academic institutions in the Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture & Technology. The first batch of High School passed out in 1977 and 10+2 in 1986. Many students of the school have gone on to elite institutions such as IITs, IIMs, NITIE(National Institute of Industrial Engineering), IRMA, AIIMS(Delhi), AFMC(Pune), NDA/CDS etc. and have also gone abroad through GRE/TOEFL for higher education. The school is represented in various national and international quiz competitions and its students has also won many scholarships such as NTSE, Mathematics Olympiad etc. Also,here well developed science practical lab are present and 2-3 practical take place weekly. The school has a double storied building and a huge playground. A new Multi-Purpose Hall has been constructed and this was established on 2nd October 2014.
A paper factory in the nearby town of Lalkuan also sends quite a few children to this school. The school also caters to children from nearby towns such as Rudrapur, Kichcha, Baheri, Nagla, Lalkuan and Haldwani.
The first Principal of the school was Sr Laurette who had come down from Ohio, US. She was followed by Sr Mary Vimala and Sr Mary Vijaya. The Sisters of Notre Dame handed over administrative control of the school to Joseph John in 1984. The school currently has Dr. B.C. Pathak as principal.