The Bhawanipur Gujarati Education Society School (BES School) also popularly known by its old name, J. J. Ajmera High School is a private, co-educational, K-12, school of Kolkata. The school is located in Bhawanipur area of Kolkata.[1][2]
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The J J Ajmera High School or the Bhawanipur Gujarati Education Society School had been founded 1928.[1][2] The Secondary School had been founded in 1958 while the Higher Secondary School had been founded in 1960. Later, the BES College was founded in 1966 by the Gujarati Society, Calcutta, which grew out of this school.[1][3][4][2]
Both the school and college were started by privately owned trust started by Gujarati businessman living in Kolkata and even the land on which the school and collage stands were donated by few generous Gujarati businessman. The fund for construction of school building was donated by a gentleman after whom the school was named J. J. Ajmera High School. The original purpose of the founders was to give their wards an education in Gujarati, so that they learn writing and speaking in their mother tongue and till almost a decade ago, the admission to school was restricted to only Gujarati speaking person, as per original rules of the trust. In those days the medium of study, till class V was totally in Gujarati and from VI onwards in English and second language was Gujarati. Bengali was taught as a subject only for two years Class V and VI. The school was then affiliated to WB Board and students had to appear for Madhyamik examinations for passing out.
However, since, 2002, the school is now open to all community and medium of teaching is English and second language offered has been changed to Hindi or Bengali. The teaching of Gujarati language has been completely stopped. The School is a part of Bhawanipur Gujarati Education Society, which also operates one of the most popular colleges in Kolkata. The school is now affiliated to ICSE Board, New Delhi and offers education right from primary to higher secondary, after which their students can select the stream for further studies in arts, science, commerce to fashion which are offered by the Bhawanipur Education Society Collage, run by the same trust.[1][5][2]The school also has a Computer training Centre, which is a joint venture with Aptech.[1]