Coordinates 13°5'31"N 80°11'42"E Founder E.A.G. Moses Headmistress Renuka Samson Founded 6 June 1976 Motto "Educate and Illuminate" Faculty 360 (in 2012) | School type PRiVATE Principal Radhika Unni Phone 044 2615 1145 Number of students 9,960 (in 2010) Average class size 60 | |
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Area trustee SBIOA Educational Trust Address 18, School Road, Anna Nagar West Extension, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600101 Similar SBOA Matriculat and High, Chinmaya vidhyalaya senior se, Velammal Matriculat Higher S, Maharishi Vidya Mandir S, Padma Seshadri Bala Bha | ||
SBOA School and Junior College is one of the first and largest school campuses for the SBIOA Education Trust, run by the State Bank of India Officers Association in Anna Nagar Western Extension, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. The school educates students from Kindergarten up to Standard 12, which is the final year of schooling in the state.
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History
The SBOA School and Junior College was started in 1979 by E.A.G. Moses of the State Bank of India Officers' Association Educational Trust. It was officially started in 1979 at Anna Nagar West, Chennai to coincide with the International Year of the Child, for the benefit of the Bank's officers' children. The first principal was Shirley Ray.
In 1983, the trust started a new school providing education in the Matriculation board syllabus also: SBOA Matriculation and Higher Secondary School. This school was moved to a separate campus in 1994.
The SBIOA runs the following schools in the south Indian states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu:
Infrastructure
The school had a humble beginning with a small hut which later was upgraded with several building which consists of a Main Building, which is the first and the oldest building of the school, for students of classes 6 to 12. There is another building for classes 1 to 6, which is the largest block of the school. There is also a rotunda-like structure for the kindergarten children. It is the only fully air-conditioned block of the school. The school has an open-air theater and two indoor auditoriums which are used to celebrate cultural events and functions. The school also has an athletic ground, play area for kindergarten students, a basketball court, football ground which is present in the athletic ground.
Staff
The staff of the school consists of department heads with the Senior Principal as the team Leader.