St. Aloysius' High School, Kanpur
St Aloysius' High School, Kanpur is an English Medium Senior secondary missionary school in Kanpur, established in 1948 initially for the education of Catholic students but is open for all without any kind of distinction. Until 1997 it was only up to class 10th affiliated from the ICSE board of education, in 1998 the school was upgraded to run till class 12th the highest class for school education in India with affiliation to the ISC board. St Aloysius' School Kanpur, popularly known as SAS, was earlier an ISC level school till 1976 but had only till class 11th as per the ISC guidelines.
The school's motto is Pro Deo et Patria meaning "For God and for country".
Founder
The founder of the school is Rev. Fr. Balthassar J. Pereira. He started the school with twenty students and five teachers with permission of then Bishop of Allahabad Rt. Rev Dr. Leonard Raymond. Initial history of the school is found chronicled in the Founder's own words in the letters he wrote to the principals to be published in the souvenirs at the time of Silver and Golden Jubilees of the school.
SAS alumni
St Aloysius School Kanpur has an Alumni Body AOBA Aloysius Old Boys Association was started a long time back but the first prominent action taken by AOBA was the Reunion of 2010 where most of the teachers and many ex students were present, the next reunion of 18 December 2011 held in the school premises was able to pull in over 400 ex students. AOBA is recognized by the school management and has a mention on school website too. apart from presence on various social networking sites AOBA also has its own official website called as AloysiusBoys
Location and address
SAS is located in Kanpur Cantt, the address is:-
- 36 Cantt
Kanpur 208004
U.P
India