Burn Hall School

Burn Hall School is an elite missionary school for boys which was established by the Mill Hill Missionaries in 1942 in undivided India, in Srinagar, Kashmir. Its motto is "Industria Floremus - In Toil We Flourish". It is one of the oldest and most prestigious schools of the valley, producing a line of distinguished alumni. In 1948, some missionaries also went to Abbottabad, Pakistan, and opened a branch there, later taken over by the Pakistan Army in 1977 (the school is now called Army Burn Hall College). The school celebrated its Golden Jubilee in 2006. The school will organise many co-curricular tournaments for sport such as cricket, football, basketball, and chess.The best student of this school is HR.HistoryFr. Thijssen and Fr. Jong came to Srinagar in 1942 and rented a home from Mr Mirza at hotel road (now Moulana Azad Road) Srinagar. The building which housed the first Burn Hall School is at present the Teachers’ Training College. The Srinagar branch closed down temporarily for some time. It was restarted on 17 April 1956 with its first principal, Father J. Boerkamp.Present formToday Burn Hall School is an elite Christian missionary institution for boys, and falls under the management of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jammu-Srinagar. It is directed by the Education Society of the Jammu-Srinagar Diocese. It is registered as a charitable society. It is affiliated with J&K State Board of School Education and recognized by the Education Department of the Government of Jammu and Kashmir. Classes range from L.K.G. to XII. Class XI of the school was inaugurated on December 10, 2005 and the complete higher secondary division started in 2006.