Sacred Heart Convent School (Ahmednagar)
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Sacred Heart Convent High School, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra
Maharashtra
Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...

, India
India
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Location

The school is situated opposite LIC
Life Insurance Corporation of India
The Life Insurance Corporation of India is the largest state-owned life insurance company in India, and also the country's largest investor. It is fully owned by the Government of India. It also funds close to 24.6% of the Indian Government's expenses. It has assets estimated of...

 Office, near the Ahmednagar Fort.Location The NH222
National Highway 222 (India)
National Highway 222 is an Indian National Highway running within the states of Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh connecting the city of Kalyan near Mumbai in Maharashtra to Nirmal near Adilabad in Andhra Pradesh....

 passes nearby.

History

Sacred Heart Convent High School was established in 1950 by the nuns of the Carmelite Congregation
Carmelites
The Order of the Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel or Carmelites is a Catholic religious order perhaps founded in the 12th century on Mount Carmel, hence its name. However, historical records about its origin remain uncertain...

 (C.C.R) and has developed into a fully grown establishment imparting education to students from kindergarten up to Xth standard.

It is one of the Schools of the Sacred Heart Society run by Carmelite Sisters (Nuns).

Education is provided through the medium of English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 and Marathi
Marathi language
Marathi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people of western and central India. It is the official language of the state of Maharashtra. There are over 68 million fluent speakers worldwide. Marathi has the fourth largest number of native speakers in India and is the fifteenth most...

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The school celebrated its golden jubilee in January 2000.

The current year 2011 principal is St.Toynett Brako. The school is exceptionally good at inculcating values and providing many facilities for the students. Every year the school has an excellent result at the State Board examination.

Alumni

Sacred Heart Convent High School Ahmednagar Students School Alumni Group http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=photos&ref=ts&gid=7314444793#/group.php?gid=7314444793&ref=ts

Famous alumni include Kim Sharma
Kim Sharma
-Biography:Kim was born in Ahmednagar to an Indian father and a Japanese mother and did her schooling at St. Joseph's Convent in Panchgani. She then returned to her hometown and joined a junior college. Of her college days, she said 'Having studied in a boarding school, where most of the girls were...

, Ubeid Khan, and Sohail Khan
Sohail Khan
Sohail Khan is an Indian director, writer, producer and actor working in the Hindi cinema. He is the younger brother of actors Salman Khan and Arbaaz Khan...

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