Ramakrishna Mission High School, Sitanagaram
About the School
Faith in one’s own divine nature and the courage to live by such faith is the urgent need of the present student community right from preprimary level to University education. This alone can liberate them from the clutches of undue materialism, excessive consumerism and unprecedented media exploitation. Swami Vivekananda, the great icon of Indian youth and patriot par excellence strongly recommended this through his declarations that ‘Each soul is potentially divine’ and ‘Education is meant for manifestation of this perfection which is already within’. He called this education as Man-making education which takes care of the total personality of human being rather than just meeting the bread-winning requirements and survival. In various occasions Swami Vivekananda also declared that ‘renunciation and service’ are the core of the backbone of our great nation and if we strengthen India in these channels, every problem of India gets automatically resolved and the country takes its position of pristine glory. He also exhorted that India progresses well only when its masses are taken care of and only when social justice prevails.
Drawing inspiration from the prophetic teachings of Swami Vivekananda, Ramakrishna Mission, Vijayawada is running a rural based Ramakrishna Mission High School offering classes from LKG to 10th standard at Sitanagaram Village, Tadepalli Mandal, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh meeting the educational needs of the children from Sitanagaram and surrounding 18 villages who are mostly from poor, under-privileged, backward and SC/ST communities.
Ramakrishna Mission is managing the school since 2001 with Government aid Telugu Medium instruction from class 6 to class 10. However, the Mission is managing the School since 2020, without Government aid, providing free education to these 200 students from the families belonging economically weaker section and who are very much below the poverty line. With earnest entreaties from local community, Ramakrishna Mission started simultaneously English Medium classes from LKG onwards from 2004 without Government aid and with bare minimum fees structure just to meet the school requirements without any commercial interests. The present strength of students is 1032, out of which the English Medium stream strength is 822 and that of Telugu Medium stream is 200. The school is offering co-education. Within a very short period of seven years, Ramakrishna Mission, with the support of public donations, built a school building, Vivekananda VidyaVihar with 30 spacious classrooms of best natural ventilation and lighting. The school building has three floors with wide verandas, broad stairs and adequate toilets. Gradually, the management equipped the school with highly qualified staff, an auditorium with audio-visual equipment to organize morning assemblies and student events, science laboratory, computer laboratory, English language laboratory, innovation laboratory, virtual class room, digital classes, library with good collection of books, fire-fighting equipment, R.O. water supply facility for drinking etc. The school has appointed faculty for Physical Education and maintains adequate stock of games and sports material for developing physical fitness of the students. Satisfied with the facilities and arrangements, the Government of Andhra Pradesh accorded Permanent Recognition to the school vide its order no. Recog. L.Dis. No. 1906/(B2) B5/2016; Dt: 27-03-2017. Staff Quarters were also built to accommodate limited staff members.
Ramakrishna Mission built this Green Building in the year 2008 with the generous donations received from the public. It has unique architecture that provides plenty of natural light and ventilation. It is a three-storey building consists of 30 spacious classrooms with multimedia instruction infrastructure, office cum reception, library, science laboratory, virtual classroom, English language laboratory and Digital classrooms. A server based local area network connects all the classrooms to facilitate easy installation of required educational software. It is supported by a 30 Kilowatt Solar Power Supply system with battery back-up facility. Its power consumption through grid-power supply is almost negligible. It is protected by fire-fighting equipment as per the standard norms. It has very wide stairs and verandas. It also has very spacious separate toilets for students and staff in each floor. The building also has R.O. water supply plant that supplies safe drinking water for the entire student community.
On the way from the main gate to the entrance of the building, a nicely carved red sandstone majestic statue of Divine Mother Saraswati Devi was installed and unveiled on 15th August 2014.
Besides housing Ramakrishna Mission High School, Vivekananda Vidya Vihar also serves as a youth welfare centre to train rural youth in various ways by conducting seminars on different themes, conducting youth and teachers’ conventions, conducting competitions on Ramakrishna – Vivekananda literature for school and college students, etc.
This Vivekananda Vidya Vihar Green Building is literally a boon for the children and youth of Sitanagaram and surrounding villages in particular and to the student community of Andhra Pradesh in general. Deriving inspiration from the ideals of renunciation and service given by Swami Vivekananda and supported by the worldwide, non-political, non-sectarian and spiritual organization, viz., Ramakrishna Mission, this building is acting as an eternal fountain liberally spreading character-building and man-making principles without any distinction of caste, religion or race seeing living God in every human being.
In a Special Event organized in Ramakrishna Mission High School, Sitanagaram on Wednesday, the 20th March 2019 on the occasion of 125th Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda’s Historical Chicago Addresses. Sri Sharad Vivek Sagar, Founder & CEO, Dexterity Global was invited for the program. Sri Sharad delivered motivational speeches and spent the whole day in our School interacting with the students of our school.
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam's visit to School
Bharataratna Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, former President of India visited our Ramakrishna Mission High School, Sitanagaram and interacted with our students on 3rd April 2008. Dr. Kalam in his message to the students advised them to acquire knowledge which has 3 components namely Creativity, Righteousness and Courage.
Academic Achievement
The English Medium stream registered 100% pass results in 10th class Board Examinations for the last seven years. During 2017-18, 10 students got 10 out of 10 GPA and 17 other students scored 9.8 and 9.7 GPA. Compared to the total strength of the students appearing for Board Examination, this record exceeds the performance of many corporate schools in this regard.
Vivekananda Vidyarthi Nilayam
Hostel for School Boys
Attached to the Telugu Medium High School, a free Students’ Home for poor High School Boys was started in the academic year of 2009-10 with five boys. Boys who have passed V standard in Telugu Medium, State Syllabus, are eligible for admission to VI standard. Admission tests are held in April/May every year. At present, 10 boys are staying in the Home.
The Vivekananda VidyarthiNilayam (Students’ Home) hitherto housed in various existing buildings has now a permanent dwelling in the new building constructed at Sitanagaram to commemorate the 150th Birth Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda, inaugurated on 15 August 2014.
Interested parents may contact Mission Office during the end of April of every year for admission details.
Hostel for School Boys
Attached to the Telugu Medium High School, a free Students’ Home for poor High School Boys was started in the academic year of 2009-10 with five boys. Boys who have passed V standard in Telugu Medium, State Syllabus, are eligible for admission to VI standard. Admission tests are held in April/May every year. At present, 10 boys are staying in the Home.
The Vivekananda VidyarthiNilayam (Students’ Home) hitherto housed in various existing buildings has now a permanent dwelling in the new building constructed at Sitanagaram to commemorate the 150th Birth Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda, inaugurated on 15 August 2014.
Interested parents may contact Mission Office during the end of April of every year for admission details.
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