Serampore Union Institution is a Bengali-medium boys' school in West Bengal, India. Affiliated to the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education and the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education, the institution was founded on January 7, 1884.
Location The school is a Bengali medium school (boys) situated at 7 K.M. Bhattacharya Street, Tinbazar, Serampore - 712201, West Bengal, India.
Curriculum The school offers classes from grade 5 to grade 12. It is under the education board of WBBSE and WBCHSE (W.B.B.S.E. INDEX NUMBER TI-064).
Subjects offered in the Secondary Level (Class V to Class X) First Language: Bengali Second Language: English Third Language: Sanskrit (Class VII & VIII) Mathematics Physical Science / Natural Science Life Science History Geography Computer Education Work Education Physical Education (Subjects as offered by the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education)
Subjects offered in the Higher Secondary Level (Class XI to Class XII) Science Physics Chemistry Mathematics Biology Computer Science Statistics
Commerce Accountancy Business Organisation Economics Economic Geography Mathematics Computer Application
Classes are taught in Bengali and English. Subjects as offered by the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education.
Infrastructure The school comprises three adjoined buildings and one football ground which include a cricket pitch. The school has an old library, three science labs, a physical gym, a hall, and a computer lab.
Office Staff Sri Prabhat Kumar Pal
History It was towards the end of the 19th century, led by Sri Naryan Chandra Bhattacharyya, some locals of Serampore, Mahesh and Ballavpore, approached Pandit Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar with a request to open a branch of the Metropolitan High School at Serampore. But Vidyasagar Mahasai advised them to set up a school in the town on their own. With his blessings came up Mahesh Higher Class English School with fifty six students in the year 1884. Later the school moved from Mahesh Higher to Newgate street (Rishi Bankim Sarani) and from there to Poffam House, the present Vidyasagar bhavan of the school building.
In the 1930s the doors of the school were opened for the girls of the town willing to pursue higher education after primary level until Serampore Girls’ High School came up to shoulder the responsibility. During the war the school building also housed some classes of Serampore College.
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