ORIGIN

St. Francis School, 31 – Cantonment, Amritsar, one of the premier educational institutions in the Holy City of Amritsar, with its lush green campus is run under the aegis of Diocese of Jalandhar. It was established in 1953 by Rev. Fr. Finbar OFM Cap, the Priest in charge of St. Francis of Assisi parish in Amritsar Cantonment which was until the partition a part of Lahore Diocese. He started the school primarily to cater to the educational needs of the Anglo Indians settled in Amritsar and later got the school affiliated to the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations established by the University of Cambridge. The university of Cambridge’s Local Examinations Syndicate with the assistance of Interstate for Anglo-Indian Education established the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination in the year 1958. The Government of India accorded recognition to the Council for conducting public examinations under Delhi Education Act, 1973 and in the year 1974 first batch of ICSE was started. The School is affiliated to the Council of Indian School Certificate Examination, New Delhi, Vide Reg. No. PU – 002.