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Bell Matriculation Higher Secondary School

private / coeducational / secondary school in Palayankottai, California, America

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ4883203
Source-derived summary

The Bell Matriculation Higher Secondary School is a private high school in Southern India, founded in 1992.

Growth

Academically, the school has grown consistently. In 2005, the school received the Tirunelveli educational district's first ranking in Std X board exams. In 2006, Sree Rukmani of Std X achieved the Tamil Nadu state first rank in the national language, Hindi, and also the third overall district rank. In 2010 Ruben Mathew (X std) scored 490/500, state 4th and in 2011 Srinivas Anand(X std) scored 495/500, state third and the highest by any student in the school. In 2007, Fareena Begum (Std XII) acquired Tirunelveli district's first rank with a grand total of 1175 marks for 1200. Consistent academic successes have brought the high school to the top ranking amongst the 1,588 schools in the district.

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The public source identifies “Bell Matriculation Higher Secondary School” as private / coeducational / secondary school in Palayankottai, California, America. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Bell, Matriculation and Higher.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992, 2005, 2006, 2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1992. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Bell, Matriculation and Higher providing the first useful test.
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Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4883203. Authority coordinates are 8.724, 77.750. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1992, 2005, 2006 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from Bell Matriculation Higher Secondary School” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.