About BGES School
In 1928, a group of Gujarati businessmen who had migrated from Gujarat and settled in Bhawanipur and had adopted Kolkata as their 'Karma Bhoomi', felt the need of starting a school to impart and preserve the Gujarati language, culture and values. Thus was born “The Bhawanipur Gujarati School” in a rented building at 7 Elgin road and later at 7 Allenby Road. The next 30 years the school saw an increase in the number of students and the introduction of English as a subject.
By 1956 the school was able to purchase land at 12B Heysham Road and also construct a building which was inaugurated on Vasant Panchami in 1956. Two years later the school got affiliated to the Board of Secondary Education, West Bengal and in 1960 the school sent its first batch of students to appear in the West Bengal Higher Secondary Examination. During this period, the school was functioning as two units namely Shree Shree Laxmi Narayan Deo Trust Primary School which later came to be renamed as “Blossoms”, for primary education at Elgin Road/Allenby Road while the “The Bhawanipur Gujarati School” catered to higher education at its present location at 12B Heysham Road.
During the year 1968 the name of the school was changed to J. J. Ajmera High School in honour of the benefactors of the school during this period. The next 30 years the school progressed in leaps and bounds and also opened its doors for the non Gujarati students also. The J. J. Ajmera High School continued to send students to the West Bengal Higher Secondary Examination and since 1976 the exam came to be known as the Madhyamik Pariksha. 1996 saw the school building being renovated from two storeys to a four storied building, which allowed the shift of the Primary Section from Elgin Road to the 12B Heysham Road premises.
On the demand of the community a need was felt to offer contemporary education so that the students were able to fit in the modern environment. This led to the thought of affiliating the school with modern out looking board of examination like the Council for Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE), New Delhi. The school in 1998 got itself affiliated to the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE), New Delhi under the new name of The Bhawanipur Gujarati Education Society School.
Walking hand in hand with the global scenario the need of the hour was the introduction of computer technology in the teaching of all subjects. The year 1998 saw the teachers being trained in this field so that they could help the students. All the teachers were provided with a Laptop to facilitate their work and till date all teachers continue to be equipped with individual Laptops. Two computer labs were renovated to be on virtual LAN with the capacity of 40 desktops, were provided to the students. Each individual student had access to his/her own machine which was very uncommon in those days for any school.
In the year 2010, modern technology was introduced and consequently smart boards were put up in every classroom with Educomp modules assisting the education enrichment process. Having built up a strong infrastructure for Academics, the management focused on the holistic education for the students of the school. This approach was to give importance to extra co curricular activities resulted in construction of a new annex building consisting of three floors, in the year 2013, totally dedicated and custom built for activities of sports, music, cookery and so on, in the each of the three floor halls. The success of our students in the ICSE examination has been consistently appreciable. The aim of our school is to provide all round education to our children, walking hand in hand with modern technology. The school is scaling new heights every day and the path ahead is waiting to be tread in bold steps to keep abreast with the paradigm shift. Today the school not only admits students of Gujarati origin but has its door is open to the students from all types of origin and has an absolute cosmopolitan ambience.