Baldwin Girls' High School

Baldwin Girls' High School
Address
Map
90, Richmond Road,

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India
Information
TypePrivate school, boarding school
MottoLoyalty and Service
Religious affiliation(s)Methodist
Established1880; 144 years ago (1880)
FoundersMissionaries of The Methodist Episcopal Church
Rev. J. Gordon, Rev. R. Firth
PrincipalMrs Asha M Das.
Staff220 teachers and over 120 support staff
GenderGirls
Enrolment5750 approx.
Campus size9.5 acres (38,000 m2)
HousesBenthein, Delima, Fisher, Laura Gill, Stephen, Watson, Weston
Colour(s)Blue and white   
Websitehttps://baldwingirls.edu.in/

Baldwin Girls' High School (BGHS), founded in 1880, is an all-girls Methodist school and one of the oldest in Bangalore, India. The school follows the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education syllabus and has classes from pre-nursery up to the tenth grade. The school has an enrollment of more than 5000 students and prepares them for the ICSE examinations in the tenth grade. Baldwin Girls' High 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 Baldwin Women's Degree College also shares the same campus. Baldwin Boys' High School is the brother school and is a five-minute walk away from Richmond Road.

The school has an Opportunity School for specially gifted 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 mild and moderate categories. The classes are divided into Pre-Primary, Primary, Intermediate, Senior I, Senior II, Learning Lab, Home Maker's Class and Pre-Vocational Unit.