Oldest School in Kerala | St. Joseph's Boys' Higher Secondary School, Kozhikode | 227 Years of Legacy

St. Joseph's Boys' Higher Secondary School, located in Kozhikode, is one of the oldest educational institutions in Kerala and was started in 1793. The school run by the Society of Jesus. 

According to the historian, it was originally started in 1792, the British government acquired areas under the Malabar region which include Kozhikode also. Then a bustling port town, from Tipu Sultan’s forces after the end of the Third Anglo-Mysore war. And a year later, in 1793, St Joseph’s European School took birth, originally for teaching the children of employees of the East India Company.

 

The school today has two streams: the English and the Malayalam media.

The school is supposed to have achieved its composite development under the reign of the Carmelite priests in 1861. Their authority extended from 1861 to 1878.

St. Joseph's Boy's School. Photo Credit: Google

In the year of 1906, the school got acknowledged by Code of Regulations and became the European High School. 

The school published its first-ever magazine " Josephite" in 1913. 

On 1914 a two-storied building was set up for the boarders.

St. Joseph's Boys School. Photo Credit: Google

School Logo

 

Seal of the Society of Jesus. The "IHS" trigram represents the first three Greek letters of "IHΣOYΣ" (Jesus), later interpreted as "Iesus Hominum Salvator", Jesus, Saviour of Mankind, The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu, S.J. and S.I. or SJ, SI) is a Roman Catholic religious order of clerks regular whose members are called Jesuits.

St. Joseph's is a Catholic and Jesuit School where ethical and spiritual values are central. 

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