Enrollment 1,015 students Phone +977 1-5174094 Founded 1951 | Principal Fr. Samuel Simick, S.J Song "From the Snows" Number of students 1,015 | |
Religious affiliation(s) Society of Jesus (Jesuits) Established 1951 (66 years ago) (1951) Motto Live for God, Lead for Nepal Genders Single-sex education (?–1996), Mixed-sex education (1996–) Similar St Xavier's School, St Xavier's College, I J Pioneer School, Galaxy Public School, Lincoln School Profiles | ||
St xavier s school godavari
St. Xavier's School is a Nepalese Jesuit school located in Godavari, Lalitpur District, Bagmati Zone. The school is about 15 kilometres (9.3 miles) outside Kathmandu. It is the oldest educational institution of Nepal, founded in 1951.
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History
St. Xavier's is the oldest educational institution of Nepal and one of the best known. It was started in 1951 by American Jesuit priest and missionary Marshall D. Moran and a group of other American Jesuit priests. After a few years, because of the increasing number of students, the primary school was shifted to St. Xavier's School, Jawalakhel, located in Jawalakhel, and the high school remained at Godavari.
In 1969, due to ever growing demands for admission to the school, St. Xavier's, Godavari was turned into a full-fledged primary school and St. Xavier's, Jawalakhel was turned into a full-fledged high school.
It was an all-boys school until 1996, when another major decision turned St. Xavier's, Godavari into a co-educational day school, focused on educating children from the local community, that would again become a high school.
Present day
The school is still run according to Jesuit principles of education, even though Indian and Nepalese Jesuits have taken the place of the American founders.
St. Xavier's Godavari is one of four schools in Nepal operated by the Jesuits. The other three are St. Xavier's School, Jawalakhel (already mentioned) located in Lalitpur, and St. Xavier's College in Maitighar, both in Kathmandu Valley, while the other is St. Xavier's School, Jhapa.