Julien Day School
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Julien Day School is a co-educational primary, secondary and senior secondary school
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 in Kolkata
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, West Bengal
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, India
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The school is run by "The Julien Educational Trust", a private organisation of reputed people of the Anglo-Indian community, has successfully established and is running four branches of the school at Kolkata, Ganganagar, Kalyani and Howrah.The school was founded by Late Mrs. Grace Julien, an eminent teacher of her time, and governed by the Board of Trustees of the Julien Educational Trust. The Julien Day School at Kolkata was established in 1969, Ganganagar in 1976 and Kalyani
in 1988 are all affiliated to the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations with I.C.S.E. at the class X level and I.S.C. at the class XII level comprising three streams of Science,
Commerce and Humanities. The Howrah Branch was established in 2007 will also seek affiliation to the Council as the other three branches. Earlier there was a branch in Townsend Road, but it got split from the main school and was rechristened as 'Julian Day School' in the 1990s amidst much controversy.

The school anthem is 'Julien Day School's children are we' set to the tune of the national anthem of Germany. The badge of the school bears a quote of Sir Francis Bacon 'Knowledge is power'.

The official website is www.juliendayschool.com

Many ex students of Julien Day School have established themselves successfully in India and abroad. Some of the famous ex students includes:

  • Rationalist and humanist Debashis Chatterjee
  • Actor Jisshu Sengupta,
  • Cricketer Saradindu Mukherjee
    Saradindu Mukherjee
    Saradindu Mukherjee is a former Indian cricketer. He played domestic cricket for Bengal and played three One Day Internationals for India in 1990–91.-References:...

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  • Singer Surajit Chatterjee (of Bhoomi),
  • Meritorious And Rank Holder student in school level examination 2005: Samrat Mukherjee
  • Actor Kaushik Sen
  • Yogesh Goenka (Propreitor Himani)
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