St. Vincent's High School is an English-medium convent school founded in 1867, located in the Indian city ofPune and named after Vincent de Paul, a seventeenth-century saint known for his love for the poor and the downtrodden. The school, which is recognized by the Government of Maharashtra, prepares pupils for the Secondary School Certificate Examination and for the Higher Secondary Certificate examination. It is owned by the Poona Catholic Educational Association and managed by the Poona Jesuit School's Society, which belong to the Christian Religious Minority group, and therefore it enjoys the rights and privileges guaranteed by Article 30 of the Constitution of India. It is considered one of the best schools in Pune and provides quality education to the students. It is currently ranked at No. 9 all across India. The Society of Jesus, to which the Jesuit Fathers and Brothers belong, is a Catholic religious order founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola in 1540. Active in the field of education throughout the world since its origin, the Society runs 179 high schools and 98 colleges in India, in which young people of every social class, community, and linguistic group are educated through the medium of both English and the regional languages.
Present
St. Vincent's High School imparts English-medium education from Std.I to Std.X. The St. Vincent's Junior College prepares students for the Higher Secondary Certificate Examination. The St. Xavier's pre-primary school prepares children to study English. Admissions are competitive, based on merit. The plans on making an Olympic sized swimming pool in the campus has been achieved. The massive school football ground is just the exact size of a real football field along with a stadium to suit the audiences.
Achievements
St. Vincent's has the notable record of winning the PSAA's Annual Athletics Championship for 60 consecutive years as of 6 February 2007. This achievement was recorded as a national record in the Limca Book of Records.
Principals
Notable alumni
Meher Baba graduated from St. Vincent's High School in 1911.
Banoo Jehangir Coyaji was the first female to pass the matriculate exam from St Vincent's, an all-boys school, in 1933.
Mohammed Hamid, Information Officer from 1950 to 1955 at the Embassy of Pakistan in Washington and from 1955 to 1962 at the Pakistan Mission to the UN in New York, later a manager at Pakistan International Airlines in New York and at Olympic Airways in New York.
an Indian-American computer engineer, an alumnus of IIT-Kharagpur from Pune, and an Oscar Awards Winner! In 2017, he won the Academy Award for technical development as a pioneering work in Computer-Generated Imagery.
