La Salle School, Klang is a boys' mission school in Klang, Selangor, Malaysia. It is located at Persiaran Raja Muda Musa, Klang and neighbours three other schools: Hin Hua High School (Private), SMK Tengku Ampuan Rahimah, and SK (1)&(2) Simpang lima.
History La Salle School, Klang is one of the oldest schools in Klang. It was established by the Roman Catholic Church in 1940 to provide education for Malayan boys regardless of race and religious affiliation. It is one of 26 De La Salle mission schools in Malaysia. Commonly known as the La Salle School, it has long consisted of a primary school and a secondary school that are administered separately. The primary and secondary schools were administered as a single unit until 1964.
Private school Rev. Father Louis Guittart of France was the first principal of the school. The school was originally known as St. Bernadette's School but was renamed La Salle Institution in 1950 when the school was placed under the administration of the De La Salle Brothers, a teaching congregation with schools and universities across the world. In 1952, the school was renamed La Salle School. Today, the primary school is formally known in Malay as Sekolah Kebangsaan La Salle and the secondary school is formally known as Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan La Salle. They are now both national schools administered by the Malaysian Ministry of Education but remain under the ownership of the Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur which appoints members of the school's Board of Governors. Like all Malaysian "English-medium" missionary schools, the payment of fees for primary and secondary school students at La Salle was required until the school fully integrated a "Malay-medium language instruction" which it had by the 1980s.
Principals
Year service beganYear service endedName of Principal19401947Rev. Fr. L. Guittart19471951Rev. Fr. John Edmund19521957Rev. Bro. Stephen Phillip19581963Rev. Bro. Leo Manicasami19641964Rev. Bro. Celestine Jennings19651967Rev. Bro. John Mathew Neo19681976Rev. Bro. Harold Reynolds19771982Rev. Bro. Cassian Pappu19831985Rev. Bro. David Liao19861988Rev. Bro. Michael Wong19891993Rex C.C. Michael19931994K. Sadasivam19951998Shum Kwok Hong19982003Zainon Kasim20032006Hasimah Karim20062010Lee Lily20102012Hajah Adliyah Ramli20122014Ding Sooi Chong20152017Loh Kea Yu20172020Woon Boon Yiat20202025Manokaran a/l Ponniah2026 -Franklin a/l Xavier Francis Pereira
See also Persiaran Raja Muda Musa Hin Hua High School Klang
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