St. Paul’s

The Delhi Orthodox Syrian Church Society was registered on 28 February 1961 with the purpose of setting up a school.

Nursery School started in the Parish Hall by Rev. Fr. K.A. George and Mr. Elizabeth Philip as Incharge.

A special donation of Rs. 10,000/- from Rev. Fr. V.C. George was used for paying land premium to DDA, and the school was declared as being run in his memory.

His Grace Mathews Mar Athanasios, Metropolitan of Diocese outside Kerala laid the Foundation on 28 April 1968.

First wing of building constructed 

Blessing ceremony of the building took place on 17 September 1972.

Started the construction of the compound wall.

Completion of the construction of the compound wall.

The school was upgraded to a Higher Secondary school.

Additional Floors were built.

Consecration of Additional Floors

On 26th October 1981, the School was recognized by the Directorate of Education.

The Foundation Stone for the New Building was laid by Rev. Fr.T.C. Mathai

Membership of the ‘All India Parents Teachers’ Association’.

The New Building was inaugurated by Shri. A. A. Rahim, Minister of State for External Affairs on 25 September 1983.

Subsequent affiliation of the Middle School was obtained from C.B.S.E.

In the month of March, the First Batch Class X passed out with 100% result.

The School was upgraded to Senior Secondary School

First Batch of Commerce Stream Class XI

On 5th October 1986, the Foundation of the Third Block was laid by H.G.Dr. Paulos Mar Gregorios

First Batch of Class XII Commerce appeared for Board Exams

First Batch of Class XII Science appeared for Board Exams 

Completed the construction of II & III floors and Inaugurated along with the New Block by H.G. Dr. Paulos Mar Gregorios on 9th October 1988. 

Launched the first School Magazine

Completed the construction of II & III floors and Inaugurated along with the New Block by H.G. Dr. Paulos Mar Gregorios on 9th October 1988. 

Our School was adjudged first among 25 schools as the best promoter of the Cultural Heritage of Denmark.

Computer education from VI- XII; offered as an elective subject for XI & XII C.B.S.E.

Established Aviary, Aquarium and Play Hut. 

School Chapel inaugurated by H.G. Job Mar Philoxenos in April

Renovation of Office and Science labs in May.

Sr. Computer Lab inaugurated in July.

Conference Hall, Music Room, Exam Room also started.

Prospectus was brought out

Computer-aided learning introduced.

Pipe Band, Brass Band & NCC introduced for both boys & girls.

Orthodox Bible classes for Orthodox students initiated.

Malayalam & French taught as Third languages.

Inauguration of Multi Media Lab by Mr. A V Paulose

Vision & Mission statement was framed.

First exchange programme to UK under United Kingdom India Education Research Initiative (UKIERI).

The School received Minority Institution status from the Minority Commission, Government of India.

Addition Subjects namely Sculpture, Fine Arts, Physical Education and Computer Informatics introduced in Class XI & XII.

99 students of from our school got the opportunity to Visit the Rastrapati Bhawan and got an oppotunity to interact with His Excellency, The President, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on May 5, 2006.

Third Computer Lab for Computer aided learning inaugurated on June 29, 2006 by Mr. A. V. Poulose.

Roller Skating Hockey introduced.

Mayank Raghav of Class XII B was selected for Under 19 Boys Cricket Team, Delhi.

Our School hosted 8 teachers from Bristol on April 13, 2007 as part of the UKIERI programme.

NCC introduced for Boys.

Our School was adjudged 16 in India and 04 in Delhi from amongst 3500 schools all over India in the Green School Programme.

School became part of Sahodaya Cluster of Schools.

Library automation.

School website launched.

2 Rain Water Harvesting plants introduced.

First among 5500 schools from all over India in Green School Programme.

Exchange Programme with Australia.

Exchange Programme with Italy.

Exchange Programme with USA.

School Won the British Council International School Award for the year 2009-2012.

Student visit to Thailand under Globe Programme.

Model UN being held for 3 years.

Class X 2008-09 batch got 100% First Division.

Took the initiative to support the victims of Bihar Flood .

The Ark Project- A positive vision of a Low carbon future an exchange programme with Wolvercote Primary School, Wolvercote, Oxford, UK.

Carolina Giacomel and Giuditta Mazzi, two students from Italy were hosted by St. Paul’s School for a year, organised by AFS

E-Pal’s Club Exchange Program- (Comparing & Contrasting India & U.K.) between 30 students of our school and 30 students of Westwoodside Primary school, UK

Routes to Roots and (CAP) Citizen’s Archive of Pakistan exchange programme between India and Pakistan where students communicated with each other through exchange of postcards, pictures, audio messages and photographs.

New Building was inaugurated on 22 October 2011.

Smart classrooms with LCD Screen in 2011.

Teacher’s Resource Centre in 2011

Jr. School Library in 2011

Better Sports facilities introduced.

Mario D A Cavisto from Rome, Italy and Jennifer Lynn Mauro joined our school and was here for a year.

Gifty Samuel of Class XI went to Alaska for a year’s scholarship programme by AFS.

Alphy Geever, Elsa Paulose and Niyanta Gupta visited Japan for 3 weeks under AFS Cultural Programme.

Ajay P Samuel of Class XI went on a 13 days Exchange Programme by JENESYS to Japan.

Delegates from Pakistan visited St. Paul’s school and a teacher and four students visited Pakistan in February organised by Routes to Roots and CAP.

Psychology introduced as an elective subject in Class XI.

Principal Ms. Rachel Thomas awarded State sponsored Best Teacher Award on 5 September 2012 by Smt. Sheila Dixit at Tyagaraj Stadium.

Auditorium was inaugurated on 16 August 2012

One more Science section added to Class XI to enable professionally inclined students to get an opportunity

Olympiads of International standards introduced in Science ,Mathematics, English, Computer Science and French

Introducing and implementing International qualification and Cambridge through ESOL Examination for our students of classes I to X.

Economic Club ventured into social work by providing financial aid to needy farmers & labourers in Maharashtra, Haryana & Delhi.

Alphy Geever, Elsa Paulose and Niyanta Gupta visited Japan for 3 weeks under AFS Cultural Programme.

Abhishek Popli visited Japan in December 2012 for 3 weeks by AFS

Srishty Mittal of Class XI went to USA on an AFS sponsored programme

Leonor from Switzerland was hosted by our school for a year under AFS Programme.

A team of Japanese delegation visited our school for tie ups with the Japan intercultural exchange programme.

Volker Schlogell from Germany visited our school for 3 weeks on a CBSE Sponsored Exchange Programme.

Ojaswi Biswas of class X went to Japan for three weeks on a CBSE sponsored Exchange programme.

Ms. Nivedita Sibbal, Geography Teacher went to Istanbul to attend a conference and conducted a workshop on Water Crisis, for a week, organized by AFS.

Principal, Ms. Rachel Thomas was awarded the Educationist of the Year in the 01 Silver Zone Educational Excellence Award 2012.

Ms. Uttara Guha Majumdar was conferred the State Teachers’ Award 2013 on 05 September 2013 by the Hon. Chief Minister, Smt. Sheila Dikshit.

‘Bodhgamyam’, an enchirchment programme for teachers was organized by Sophia Society at the school on 26 October 2013. It was a teacher’s meet of all educational institutions under the Delhi Diocese.

On 24 January 2014, Inauguration of the renovated library by Shri. T. K. A. Nair, advisor to the Prime Minister of India.

Mr. Rajinder Kumar Arya participated in the National Master’s Athletic Championship 2023 held in Kolkata, West Bengal.