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Sottise Road, Grand Baie , | |
Coordinates | 20°01′13″S57°34′47″E / 20.020369°S 57.579787°E |
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School type | Secondary School |
Motto | World Class Education For All |
School district | Rivière du Rempart District |
Rector | Mrs B.Z. Bholah Mookith |
Gender | Boys |
Classes offered | Grade 7 - 13 (Form 1 - Upper 6) |
Language | English, French, Creole |
Classrooms | 32 |
Colour(s) | Dark Blue White |
Website | adp.edu.gov.mu |
Adolphe de Plevitz State Secondary School is a boys' state secondary school based in Grand-Baie, Mauritius. [1] Students are prepared for the National Certificate Education (NCE), School Certificate (SC) and the Higher School Certificate (HSC). [2]
When it was first inaugurated in 2003 the school was originally named "Royal College, Grand Bay". [3] However it was later renamed after the renowned French philanthropist and social worker Adolphe de Plevitz who fought for basic working rights of sugar-cane labourers in Mauritius in the 19th century. [4]
The school is located at Sottise Road, Grand Bay, Mauritius and is opposite Grand Bay Clinic. The school building is square-shaped and has two storeys. It includes 32 Classrooms, Workshops for technical classes, Art rooms, Computer Science laboratories, laboratories for Chemistry, Physics and Biology. There is also a library, staff-room, gymnasium, lecture theatre and multimedia room. [5]
Yogesh Koomar Jagessur became the first student of this secondary school to win a scholarship at the Higher School Certificate in the Science field in 2012. [6] [7]