St. Xavier's School, Ranchi

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St. Xavier's School, Doranda, Ranchi

Established	1960
School type	Private
Principal	Fr. Ajit Kumar Xess
Location	Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
Students	1000
Website	stxaviersschool.com

Senior Section, St. Xaviers

St. Xavier's School in Doranda, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India was founded in 1960 and till around 2002 enjoyed an unchallenged position as Jharkhand`s (and before that Bihar`s) best school in every aspect. It is named after Saint Francis Xavier, co-founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuit Order).

The school is run by the Society of Jesus and provides education for about 1,000 students from kindergarten to standard 12. Plus two (+2) was started around the year 2000 and was until recently running under the guidance of the late Hira Prasad.

Until about 1976 the school used to follow the Cambridge Higher Secondary curriculum and now follows the Indian Certificate for Secondary Education (ICSE) curriculum. Many students from the school leave to join St. Xavier's College, Ranchi or other schools offering education beyond standard 10. The school has also had a distinguished history of feeding students into the leading engineering colleges (IITs and BIT, NIT's etc.) and medical colleges of India.

Many students come from local business families and have stayed on to become part of their businesses. Until about 1990 the only competition the school faced for boys' education was from the DAV School nearby. Since then several other schools (e.g. Delhi Public School) have opened and provide further options for boys' education.

1 Trivia
2 Well known Alumni
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Trivia

Students and alumni are referred as Xaverians, or more specifically DOXs.
The Old Xaverians are mainly networked through their Yahoo group. It welcomes all Old Xaverians to join in and stay in touch with the other alumni. The alumni try to meet up occasionally in major locations like Mumbai, Delhi, SF Bay Area, Singapore etc., besides the regular meets at Ranchi. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stxaviersranchi/
The school shares its bus facility with the Loreto Convent with whom Xaverians tend to have a love/hate relationship.
The Plus two section is co-educational. Otherwise the school is a boys-only school until standard 10th.
"Red stairs" refers to the pulpit where every morning school assembly has been conducted for years .Those stairs signify the greatness of the instituton.

[edit] Well known Alumni

[edit] Business, Industry

Ravi Prasad, 1976 Batch, President / CEO, The Himalaya Drug Company, Bangalore, India
Phaneesh Murthy, 1978 Batch( Left school in sixth)(Founder, iGate; Prior Worldwide Head of Sales and Marketing, & Board Member, Infosys)
Surya Mantha, 1978 Batch (CEO, Web18; Prior to this appointment, Mantha was heading the interactive service business for Sify India, based out of Chennai, while before this, he was with RealNetworks in Seattle, USA.)
Mrityunjay Singh, 1980 Batch, India Head, Volvo Constuction Equipments
Ashutosh Roy, 1981 Batch (CEO, Egain communications, www.egain.com)
Pramath Jha, 1980 Batch, Regional Head, TCS, UK
Vivek Malhotra, 1982 Batch (Marketing Director, Lenovo, India)
Saumen Prasad, ?? Batch, Founder & Director - Business Development, PriServe e-Solutions Pvt Ltd, Gurgaon, India
B. S. Mahadev, 1976 Batch, Director, W L Ross India

[edit] Television, Press, Other Media

Ashutosh Sinha (Deputy Editor, Awaaz)
Anirban Sengupta (now Joy Sengupta)-- Senior reporter, Khaleej Times, DUBAI (UAE).

[edit] Films, Entertainment, Other Arts

Abhishek Chaubey 1993 batch (screenplay, dialogue, Associate Director - "Omkara"), Associate Director-"Maqbool","Makdee", Associated Director & Screenplay-"The Blue Umbrella"

Shiney Ahuja-Film Actor(2 years)

[edit] Government

Nilaya Mitash, 1981 Batch, Director of Municipal Administration, Bangalore
Sajal Chakravarty (Former DC, Ranchi)
Tajinder Singh, 1982 batch, IAS Officer, Mumbai
Piyush Pandey, 1984 batch, IPS officer, West bengal cadre
Anand Bahl, ____

[edit] Academia, Research

Onuttom Narayan (1980 Batch), Professor of Physics, University of California at Sant Cruz
Suprateek Sarkar (1981 batch), Professor at University of Washigton at Pullman