Baldwin Girls High School

Baldwin Girls' High School, founded in 1880, is one of the oldest schools in Bangalore, India. The school follows the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education syllabus and has classes from Kindergarten to the 10th standard in ICSE . A women's’ degree college also occupies the premises. The school has an enrollment of more than 5000 students and prepares them for the National ICSE Exams and for the 12th std PUC examinations. Baldwin Girls' school, a member of the Baldwin group of Institutions, is run by the Methodist Church in India under the Chairmanship of Bishop of the South India Regional Conference of the Methodist Church in India.The crest is a white shield on a field of blue, the torch denotes truth and light; the open book, God’s Work and Knowledge; the laurel, honours; and the Harp, cultural development.The motto Loyalty and Service means faithfulness to God, to oneself, to the school and the nation, together with concern and care of all life.Baldwin Boys High School is the brother school of Baldwin Girls' High School.The school has an "Opportunity School" for specially challenged children. Baldwin Opportunity School is an institution in the field of Special Education, founded by Miss Anne Tillou, an American missionary, in 1964. It is an extension of the Baldwin Girls' High School and a Unit of Baldwin Methodist Education Society. The School is for children who are Intellectually Challenged in the mild and moderate category. The classes are divided into Pre-Primary, Primary, Intermediate, Senior I, Senior II, Learning Lab, Home Maker's Class and Pre-Vocational Unit.HistoryThe school was established by the Methodist Episcopal Church, with a monetary grant from John Baldwin, Ohio, United States. It was known as the Episcopal Methodist School and was managed by a board of ICSE council. The school had an ISC Board for five years from 1997 to 2002, but this was discontinued due to lack of a student body, and was replaced by the PUC college.