Cascia High School

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Cascia High School
Location
Cascia High School
Mangalore
,
Karnataka

India
Coordinates 12°51′13″N74°50′11″E / 12.853715°N 74.836419°E / 12.853715; 74.836419
Information
Religious affiliation(s) Catholic
Patron saint(s)St. Rita of Cascia
Established1946

Cascia High School [1] [2] is located in Jeppu near Mangaladevi Temple in Mangalore run by the Cascia St Rita's Church, Jeppu. Mahanavami Katta (of Mangala Devi) is located within the school compound.

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It offers high school education in both English & Kannada mediums under the Karnataka board of secondary education. This school has around 800 students

History

This school was established by parish priest of St Rita’s church Fr F X Fernandes on 3 June 1946. [3]

Monsignor F X Fernandes, Fr A J D'Silva, Fr J M Menezes, Fr Thomas D'Sa, Fr J I Saldanha, Fr Robert M Pinto, Fr Aloysius P D'Souza (the present Bishop of Mangalore Diocese) and Fr Denis D'Souza have served as school conveners. [4]

Its first headmaster was Manjeshwar Purushottam Kini, followed by Fr Fredrick Fernandes and Kateel Govind Pai.

In 1950, it became a full-fledged high school and within a year had built a four-class room building. The society took the school to be its own and through its support a further building was erected. By 1966, a night school was operating. In 1968 the school became a higher secondary school.

The school comes under the administration of the Catholic Education Board while a school convener, parish priest and School Development and Managing Committee manage its overall administration.

Since then, the school has been rendering education to thousands of students, without the distinction of caste, religion and class.

Present

At present the school has both Kannada and English medium classes functioning from VIII to X std. There are four divisions each in VIII and IX and three divisions in X std, wherein both boys and girls around 700 in number are provided with the education.

The school has been securing more than 90 per cent results in SSLC public examinations for many years.

Cascia High School has carved a niche for itself not only in the educational field, but also in all other fields. The students of the school have won many prizes in football, hockey, wrestling, yoga, and other sports activities and the school has the pride of representing State-level competitions in football, hockey and wrestling.

Extracurricular activities are conducted in schools to ensure personality development of the students There is an NCC unit, Guides, Literary Club, Science Club, Arts Club, Y S M, Kannada Club and UNESCO Club besides computer education classes.

Steven D'Souza, Fr William Fernandes, Fr Lawrence D'Souza and Saturnine Mascarenhas have served as headmasters while Rita Rodrigues, who has been serving as a teacher in the school, for the past 25 years, is the present school head.

Institutions run by Cascia St Rita's Church, Jeppu

All these institutions are located close to each other with separate campuses in Jeppu.

In total, there are about 3000 students studying in this group of institutions.

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  2. ↑ "Mangaluru: Young Students Movement - Training and election held". Daijiworld. 22 June 2019. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  3. ↑ "Schools - Cascia High School Jeppu". Schools.org.in. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  4. ↑ "News headlines". www.daijiworld.com. 10 June 2006. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
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