Lucknow is home to the world’s largest school (in terms of students). The City Montessori School has more than 45,000 students. The school, which spreads over several campuses, can’t gather for assembly as there is no venue in town that is big enough!
The school was founded in 1959 by Bharti and Jagdish Gandhi with just 300 borrowed rupees ($5.70 at current exchange rates) and a total of five students. More than half a century later, the school, which spreads over several campuses, can’t gather for assembly as there is no venue in town that is big enough. Student’s ages between three and 17 are divided into classrooms of 45 children each; every pupil wears identical school uniforms. Younger students pay about $18, older students $47 in fees per month. The school held the record once before, in 2005, when it had 29,212 pupils — beating a school in the Philippines with roughly 20,000 pupils.
City Montessori School is celebrating its Diamond Jubilee in 2019.
The school was the recipient of the 2002 UNESCO Prize for Peace Education – the only school ever to have received this award.
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