St. Xaviers High School - Lohar Chawl,Kalbadevi

Kunal Explore

Posted on August 14, 2023
St. Xavier's High School & Junior College, formerly called St. Xavier's High School, is a Catholic school located in the Mumbai Suburban district in Vile Parle West. The school & Junior College caters to pupils from kindergarten up to class 12 and the medium of instruction is the English language

Harsh Gaikwad

Posted on March 24, 2023
I can't able to express my opinion but I love this school very much 💖 This school is an emotion🥲 for me. The friends, Teachers and respected principal. I miss you all.😓 I loved this school since before 7 year when I was in 1st standard. Now Iam in 9th standard I stay in chembur. I thanks to school that he gave me confidence to live life. But now I can't able to come again to school😭 but I will try to come at St.Xavier's college soon💟. Iam still in pain that why I have leave this school whenever I remind you school my tears fall down😭. It was really an beautiful era of school for me. Thank you for reading my opinion. I hope that you have understand my feelings about st. Xavier's High School. Bye🙏🏻🥲.

Shadab

Posted on December 9, 2021
Proud Xavierite for life. One of the best schools in Mumbai with historic architecture, massive space, stone buildings, outstanding legacy and a fantabulous museum. I just wish that my alma mater restores it's lost academic glory. Heartfelt thank you to all the teachers, support staff and others... undoubtedly it was the best period of my life.

Rick Talks

Posted on October 6, 2021
St. Xavier’s High School began its eventful career in Bombay (now Mumbai) in the second half after 19th century, an era of momentous change and development for the port city of Bombay – the Gateway of India in the East. Bombay became a still busier harbor with the opening of the Suez Canal (1869) which greatly shortened the long maritime route via Cape of Good Hope. Early in the 19th century, land reclamation on the western side of the emerging city facilitated frantic building activity, for Bombay was developing into a veritable trade centre for cotton and for the products of its vast hinter land. The telegraph line began to be laid, so too the railway and the government was initiating the implementation of the proposal contained in Lord Macaulay’s famous “ Minute” of 1835; to introduce English as the official language and the medium of instruction for secondary and tertiary education. Alongside governments’ attempts of providing schools came those made by private citizens. The emphasis was on education imparted through the English-language medium. The Roman Catholic Bishop of Bombay, Anastasius Hartmann, was very much concerned about the general illiteracy among his flock. In the 1840’s he looked around for Christian educators who could come to his assistance. None could be found in the city or in the country and so he approached the Jesuit Fathers. The Superior General of the Jesuits acceded to his request and a group of five arrived in Bombay in the year 1853: the Dutchman Walter Steins; two Goans, Anthony Pereira and Anthony Jaques; and two Englishmen James Peniston and William Strickland. The Fathers’ very first foundation was the St Mary’s institution (Mazagaon) in 1857. The bishop manifested his desire that a school be opened in the Fort area. Jesuits are known to be men of “prompt action” (obedience is their forte!). They began looking around for a suitable plot of land on which to make a start, and simultaneously rented a house at Cavel. In this house, known as the Glass House, they welcomed the first batch of 115 boys on 19 March 1860, under the leadership of Fr. Leo Meurin. This fledgling ‘school’ soon came to be called the Kalbadevi School. The following year 1861, the number of eager students grew to 300. The Glass House proved inadequate to hold such a big crowd. Luckily, the government moved fast to grant the Fathers the plot of land they had applied for and in 1866 the Fathers took possession of the land on which St Xavier’s High School stands today. The plot measured 200 feet by 160 feet, on lease for 999 years at the nominal rate of one rupee per year.

Phil Vania

Posted on December 14, 2019
Memories coming from 47 years ago. Still same buildings and corridors. Don't think there are any Jesuit priests that teach or reside here anymore. Stone built buildings that last a long time.