| St. John's College பரி. யோவான் கல்லூரி | |
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.jpg) Knight block | |
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Main Street, Chundikuli , 40000 | |
| Coordinates | 9°39′27.90″N 80°01′36.90″E / 9.6577500°N 80.0269167°E |
| Information | |
| School type | Private 1AB |
| Motto | Latin: Lux in Tenebris Lucet (Light Shines in the Darkness) |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Christianity |
| Denomination | Anglicanism |
| Patron saint(s) | St. John |
| Founded | 1823 |
| Founder | Joseph Knight |
| School district | Jaffna Education Zone |
| Authority | Church of Ceylon |
| School number | 1001029 |
| Principal | V. S. B. Thuseetharan |
| Headmaster | A. H. Gnanarajan |
| Head teacher | V. Kumanan |
| Chaplain | S. S. Jebaselvan |
| Teaching staff | 95 |
| Grades | 1 - 13 |
| Gender | Boys |
| Age range | 5 - 18 |
| School roll | 2130 |
| Language | Tamil, English |
| Houses | Handy Johnstone Pargiter Peto Thompson |
| Color(s) | Red and Black |
| Alumni name | Old Johnians |
| Website | sjcjaffna |
St. John's College (Tamil: பரி. யோவான் கல்லூரி Ceṉ. Yōvāṉ Kallūri, SJC) is a private school in Jaffna, Sri Lanka.[1] Founded in 1823 by British Anglican missionaries, it is one of Sri Lanka's oldest schools.[2][3]
- ^ Schools Basic Data as at 01.10.2010. Northern Provincial Council. 2010. Archived from the original on 2013-12-03.
- ^ "The South's well-known Northern voice". Daily News (Sri Lanka). 16 November 2006.
- ^ "War scars slowly heal in Jaffna peninsula". The Island (Sri Lanka)/Reuters. 15 March 2004.