Bishop Cotton School shimla

Bishop Cotton, in a letter written to Dr. Slater had suggested the School Motto: Overcome Evil with Good. He wrote: I have suggested Overcome Evil with Good’ as the motto for the School. It was the text on which I preached in the Cathedral in Calcutta on the Thanksgiving Day in 1859 when the School may be considered to have been founded. The idea of the ‘Public School, which carries so clear an image today, did not exist in 1859 in India and the history of Bishop Cotton School is of public interest for the part it played in the development of public schools and in the wider history of education in this country. In the 1840s the great schools numbered not more than half a dozen in England, and Eton, the largest, catered for fewer than 500 boys. In India, there were a handful of private schools and Military Asylums, educating the children of their neighborhood rather than the public at large.  Bishop Cotton School, Shimla, is the one of the oldest boarding schools in Asia, having been founded on 28th July, 1859, by Bishop George Edward Lynch Cotton, son of an Army Captain, who died leading his Regiment in battle. A scholar of Westminster, and a graduate of Cambridge, in 1836 he was appointed Assistant Master at Rugby by Doctor Thomas Arnold, one of the founders of the British Public School system. It was the young Mr. Cotton who is spoken of as the the model young master in Thomas Hughes’ famous book Tom Brown’s School Days which gives an insight to school life at Rugby.

School Type : Boarding School

Board : CBSE

Type of School : Co-Ed School

Grade Upto : Class 12

(I) NON – REFUNDABLE ONE TIME PAYMENT:

Students domiciled in                                               Overseas Students

India & Nepal

(a) Prospectus & Form Rs. 1,500.00                         Rs. 3500.00

(b) Registration Fee Rs. 10,000.00                            Rs. 27000.00

(c) Admission Fee Rs. 65,000.00 }                             Rs. 1,00,000.00

(II) Refundable amounts :

Caution Money (refundable at the

time of finally leaving school) Rs. 3,00,000.00       Rs. 3,00,000.00

(III) Annual fees (Subject to revision)

a. Classes III to X  Rs. 5,30,000.00                                Rs. 8,72,000.00

b. Classes XI & XII Rs. 5,65,000.00                             Rs. 8,72,000.00

(IV) Fee deposit break-up for students domiciled in India & Nepal

a. Fees to be paid at the time of admission Classes III to X:

(i) Admission fee : Rs. 65,000.00 - (Onetime payment- Non refundable)

(ii) Caution Money : Rs. 3,00,000.00 - (Rs 25000/- will be deducted towards the OCA

Lifelong Membership fee. The Balance Rs. 2.75 lacs will be refunded at the time of leaving school.)

(iii) School Annual fees : Rs. 2,95,000.00

1st installment

(iv) Advance for personal expenses: Rs. 60,000.00

(To be billed as per actual)

TOTAL : Rs. 7,20,000.00

b. Fees to be paid at the time of admission Class XI:

(i) Admission fee : Rs. 65,000.00 - (Onetime payment- Non refundable)

(ii) Caution Money : Rs. 3,00,000.00 - Rs 25000/- will be deducted towards the OCA

Lifelong Membership fee. The Balance Rs. 2.75 lacs will be refunded at the time of leaving school.)

(iii) School Annual fees : Rs. 3,30,000.00

1st installment

(iv) Advance for personal expenses: Rs. 60,000.00

(To be billed as per actual)

TOTAL : Rs. 7,55,000.00

(v) Pocket money (Classes 3-5):          Rs. 5,000.00 to be deposited along with the fees

(vi) Pocket money (Classes 6-12):       Rs.10,000.00 is to be deposited in the UCO Bank, Extension Counter

in the boys personal account, through the House Master/Matron on the day of joining.

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