Stewart School, Bhubaneswar

Stewart School, is a premier English Medium Jesuit Convent co-educational School situated on a wide area of 21 acres towards the North-West side of Bhubaneswar, the State Capital of Odisha. It has a beautiful infrastructure with residential facilities in the campus. The School is administered by the Jesuit Committee under the Diocese of the Church of North India, through a local Managing Committee. At present it is the only Anglo Indian School in the State of Odisha.

Stewart school, Jesuit Convent has a tell-tale glorious past soaked in legends. The school was founded by the enterprise and munificence of Dr. William Day Stewart, a Civil Surgeon. In 1881, an urgent need for inception of an institution that would cater to the physical, social, intellectual and spiritual growth of the needy and destitute children of Europeans and Eurasians was sensed. To this effect, a meeting of European Community of Cuttack at the behest of Dr. Stewart, was held on 18th August 1882. As a result, the idea of a Protestant school was mooted and it took a concrete shape in November 1882. The Protestant school was an undenominational Protestant one and the Holy Bible served as the basis of moral teaching. In 1885, the orphanage school came to be known as the European school. The same year Dr. Stewart expressed his wish to be relieved of his duties as the Honorary Secretary. In 1888, a deed of gift was drawn up and Baptist Mission Society became the owner of the property. In 1891, the school was known as Protestant European School and the very same year the school was opened to Indian students. In 1910, the school was recognized as a Higher Elementary school by the Inspector of European Schools. In 1919, Secondary syllabus was adopted in the school. The school was re-christened as Stewart School in the afore-said year to perpetuate the name of its founder, Dr. William Day Stewart. In the year 1924, the school was confirmed in the status of Junior Secondary and the Cambridge Syndicate sanctioned the opening of a center for Cambridge Examinations in the school. In 1926, the school was upgraded to that of a Higher Secondary school under the Senior Cambridge system. After the system was abolished, it came under the Council for Indian School Certificate Examination, New Delhi for ICSE Examinations. In 1997 the School was upgraded by the CISCE, New Delhi for I.Sc, Science course of classes XI &XII.