About us
A school built slowly, and on purpose.
St. Aldwyn's School has taught on the same Ranchi hillside since 1927. What follows is how it started, what it stands for, and who runs it today.
Our story
Forty-two children, three teachers, two rooms
The school opened in July 1927 in two rented rooms, founded by a group of teachers and clergy who wanted a school for the children of the coalfields and the railway lines — one that would charge what families could pay and teach in English without abandoning Hindi.
It moved to the present eighteen-acre site at Bariatu in 1961 and was affiliated to the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations the same year. Girls were admitted from 1994; the school has been fully co-educational since 2001.
Today, St. Aldwyn's School teaches about 2,400 students from Pre-Primary to Class XII, of whom roughly 180 board. The buildings have grown around the original quadrangle, which is still where the whole school gathers on Founder's Day.
1927
The school opens
Forty-two boys, three teachers and two rooms on a hillside leased from the diocese.
1961
Affiliation and a new campus
The school moves to its present eighteen-acre site at Bariatu and is affiliated to the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations.
1994
Girls are admitted
The first co-educational cohort enters Class I; senior school follows over the next seven years.
2008
The centenary block
A dedicated senior secondary wing opens with laboratories, a computing centre and the present library.
2026
Ninety-nine years on
Two thousand four hundred students, one hundred and forty-five teachers, and the same hillside.
Vision & mission
What we are trying to do here
Lux et VeritasLight and Truth — the school motto since 1927
Dr. Miriam Ekka
Principal since 2016
“Parents ask me what makes a school good, and I have stopped answering with results. Results follow from something quieter: a child who is known, a teacher who has time, and a day with enough room in it for a book, a field and a friend.
We are unfashionably slow about some things. We still read aloud in the primary school. We still insist that every senior spends forty hours in service before the board year. And we still hold the view that a school's job is to hand society an adult it can trust — not merely a candidate it can rank.”
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Years of legacy
Founded in 1927
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Students on roll
Pre-Primary to Class XII
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Faculty members
Average 12 years' experience
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ISC pass rate
Six consecutive years
Leadership & faculty
The people who run the school
One hundred and forty-five teachers, of whom sixty-one have taught here for more than a decade. A few of them, and the senior team, below.