Type Jesuit, Catholic Number of students 750 | Denomination All faiths Founded 2011 | |
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Established 2011; 6 years ago (2011) President Fr. Jayapathy Francis SJ Administrator Jesuit Madurai Province Principal Fr. Augustine K Antonimuthu SJ Accreditation Central Board of Secondary Education | ||
Loyola Academy, Chennai in Maraimalai Nagar, India, is an English Medium school run by Jesuits in association with their Loyola College, Chennai.
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Background
Loyola Academy was founded to serve poor, Dalit children who were suffering from lack of educational opportunities. It is affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education, Delhi. According to the India census, the literacy rate for the rural districts of Chennai was "0" in 2011. Also, an original concern of Loyola Academy was to serve Anbagam students, of whom 21 boys and 16 girls were attending in 2014; special care is given them, including summer camps.
Facilities include two buses for transporting students to school, a complete computer classroom, LED television facility in the classrooms which can take students on a virtual tour of their daily lessons or visualise theoretical concepts from their books, and a library with more than 3000 books, an LCD projector, and audio facilities. There is also a hostel for boarding students.
Activities
Activities include volleyball, basketball, karate, yoga, chess, keyboad, band, folk dance, computer designing, embroidery, and communicative English. There are also awareness programmes: LASAC (Leadership And Social Awareness Camp), NEEM (Nature Environment Ecology Movement), MAP (Movement for Anti-Plastic), LAMP (Loyola Animation Movement for the Poor), and GSP (Government Services Programme).
Spiritual consciousness is inculcated through class and school assemblies with an interfaith approach; all staff members gather each morning for a short common worship; religious and cultural festivals are celebrated schoolwide; Catholic students are given catechism classes, and monthly Eucharistic celebration is organized outside class time for Catholics.