Presentation Convent School is a Premier school for girls in Rajbagh, on the banks of Jhelum River, Srinagar. It was started in 1936 and run by the Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary, also known as Presentation Sisters.
The school was founded by the Venerable Nano Nagle in Cork, Ireland.
The founding members of the school in Srinagar were Mother Peter Conway, Mother Annunciata, and Mother Sacred Heart. The valiant nuns from Presentation Convent High School, Rawalpindi traveled to Kashmir via Uri, in a journey of three days, on the invitation of the Maharaja, Hari Singh. The Maharaja had requested the Bishop of Srinagar to invite the nuns to set up a school in Kashmir for the education of his only son and the Crown Prince, Dr. Karan Singh. The sisters rented a building on the banks of the Dal, and started their school on March 17, 1936, while the construction of the actual school was underway at Rajbagh, on the banks of River Jhelum. The Maharaja granted the school a number of endowments including the 12 acres of land on which the school is built. The cost of building the school was borne by the ruler. On June 15, 1939 the school building was officially inaugurated.
In its initial days the school was boarding and had a separate building for a boys school. The school was co-educational until 1977, when all male pupils were transferred to Burn Hall School, Sonwar. Most of the pupils were children of the Britishers settled in the valley, along with a few students from distinguished Kashmiri families.
The school was granted recognition for providing Bachelor of Arts degrees for women, but the college department was closed down in 1947, after the Indian government took over the administration of the valley.
The school was devastated by a fire on January 12, 1965 that completely destroyed the school building and part of the sisters’ residence. The impressive clock tower remained to tell the tale. The school was rebuilt and flourished as the leading girls’ school of the valley.
Presentation Convent celebrated its Platinum Jubilee in 2011 when the school was upgraded from a high school to a secondary school in the academic session 2009-2010.
The Nagle Block was inaugurated in 2009 and the Jubilee Block was started in 2011 to commemorate the Platinum Jubilee of the school.[
Address: Near Jhelum River, Rajbagh, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir 190008
Grades: LKG–12
Gender: Single-sex education (Girls)
Founders: Mother M. Peter Conway; Sr. M. Annunciatia; Sr. Xavier
Founded: 1936
Motto: Virtue and Labour
Phone: 097978 03757