Lourdes Central School, Mangaluru

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Lourdes Central School is a coeducational Roman Catholic CBSE school for ages 3 to 18, located in the Bejai area of Mangaluru, India, near St. Francis Xavier Church. Its motto is Peace Through Knowledge. The school was established in 1999 by Rev. Fr. Bernard D’Souza under the Diocese of Mangalore’s Catholic Board of Education to provide CBSE education for Catholic students and Mangalorean Catholics abroad.

The school began with English-medium classes for kindergarten and Standard I in 1999 at the Bejai Church Commercial Complex. Initially, Kannada-medium classes were offered up to Standard IV (later VI). In 2003 Fr. Joseph Peter Tauro became manager. The government allowed Kannada-medium up to Standard VI, and the school applied to offer English-medium instruction. Permission to teach CBSE in English was granted on 28 November 2003, and a No Objection Certificate to run CBSE was issued on 29 November 2003. CBSE affiliation was granted on 10 January 2005 (Affiliation No. 830120/2005-06) after inspections that began on 27 October 2004.

In May 2011, all Class 12 CBSE candidates passed their exams. The school expanded with two additional floors above the auditorium, adding physics, chemistry, biology, and mathematics laboratories, a computer room, a large library, more classrooms, and an A/V room. An administrative block housing the Principal’s chamber, conference room, and staff facilities was inaugurated on 13 March 2005 by Rev. Dr. Aloysius Paul D’Souza and MP Oscar Fernandes, at a cost of about 1.5 crore rupees.

Lourdes Central School has an international partnership with Pilton Bluecoat C of E Junior School in Barnstaple, Devon, UK. In 2010, staff and students visited the partner school under the Department for International Development (DFID) programme. For more information, visit www.lourdescentralschool.com.