BHAVAN BANGALOREPRESS SCHOOL

The Bhavan-Bangalore Press School was set up in 2010 jointly by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan and The Bangalore Press. The school is recently set up in the Chamarajpet area on Mysore Road, in a locality, predominantly housing an economically weaker section of society,and is a melting pot of people from several religions – Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Jain and others. Thus, the school has children from varied economic, cultural strata of the society. The school has the objective of providing education to children, irrespective of any social, economic, cultural barrier and the mission of uplifting children from the lower starata of society and integrating into the mainstream of society.

The school is managed by a public Charitable Trust formed under the name of “Bhavan-Bangalore Press Educational Trust (Regd.)”. The land (about 26,000 sq.ft) and part of the building cost for the school is provided by the Bangalore Press and the building of the school is  being constructed with a small available amount of money, which came from donations from individual, philanthropists and corporates, The architectural plan of the school building includes, basement, ground plus four floors.

The school will have two sections from Nursery to Class X and will be an English medium, co-educational school proposed to be affiliated to the CBSE Board. The school was formally inaugurated by Padmashri Late Dr. Mathoor Krishnamurti in June 2010 and started with a humble beginning of about 15 students during the first academic year & 200 students during the second academic year. 2014-15, the fourth academic year has a students strength of 714 students.