Campion School, Bhopal
private school in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India
Campion School, Bhopal is a private Catholic primary and secondary school for boys located in Bhopal, in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India. The school was founded by the Jesuits in July 1965 and is one of the oldest schools in Bhopal. Campion School is affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), and is among the best schools in the city, ranked as the best Boys Day School in Madhya Pradesh in a 2019 ranking by Education World India. Its campus is spread over 49 acres (20 ha) in the locality of Arera Colony.
History
In July 1965, at the invitation of the Archbishop of Bhopal Eugene D'Souza, Fr. Emmanuel Ferdinand More, a Spanish Jesuit belonging to the Province of Mumbai, established a school which he named Campion School, in honor of St. Edmund Campion, a sixteenth-century English Jesuit, also the patron saint of the school.
The school moved from place to place to find a location with a proper school setting. It held classes first at Seva Sadan, which had no room for expansion for the increasing number of students. Therefore, Fr.
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