Monastic HSEB, Janakpur

Monastic Higher Secondary English Boarding School, is a private boarding school in Janakpurdham, Dhanusa District, south-east Nepal. It was established in 1985 at a rented house at Bhanu Chowk, where it remained for seven years before expanding to a second location on Dhanusha Path, in the south of the town. Founded by Dr. Mithilesh Shah, it was named Monastic after the Sanskrit word of गुरुकुल, gurukul, which is a type of school in India, residential in nature, with shishyas living in proximity to the guru, often within the same house. It does not follow the guru-shishya tradition, and is a "normal" residential school.There are 3000 students in the school aged 5 to 18; the lower school, the middle school and the higher school. All are co-educational and has equal numbers of girls and boys. The first headmaster was Dr. Mithilesh Sah, who has occupied the post since the establishment of the school, the first and only headmaster of the school.Monastic pupils compulsorily take a district level qualification exam in grade eight and another important test, the School Leaving Certificate level tests in grade ten, which earns them a matriculation degree and then, like all the other SLC graduates in Nepal, they have a range of choices where they choose either the state funded 10+2 level to continue their education in Monastic or any other higher secondary school in Nepal, or the British A-levels in the sixth form, offered by UCLES in Nepal, or the International Baccalaureate. The majority of students go on to higher education following the completion of their SLC at the end of Year Thirteen .