St. Anselm'S, Ajmer company information, Employees & Contact Information

St. Anselm's is a school located in the city of Ajmer, Rajasthan, India. It was established in 1904 by the Rt. Rev. Dr. Fortunatus Henry Caumont, who was born on 10 December 1871 in France, and came to Ajmer to start modern education. St. Anselm's was among the first institutions of higher learning set up during the British Raj. It offers senior secondary courses. It falls under the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ajmer The many Catholic employees in the Railway workshops not only in Ajmer but around Ajmer, had several times asked the Head of the Catholic Mission to open a High School for their boys and girls. The Convent High school, which had been established some ten years before, would admit boys only up to Std. II and the boys had either to attend the European Railway school teaching up to the High School Exam; the Allahabad University or had to join the boarding schools at Agra to the North East, Nagpur to the South East, Bombay to the South, and Karachi to the west; all, indeed rather far, and these employees could not dream of sending their children to the Hill Schools. The Perfect Apostolic of Rajputana ( Rt. Rev. Fr. Fortunatus, later the first Bishop of Ajmer ) decided to start a Catholic School and accordingly on 4th. Feb. 1904, St. Anselm's was opened as a boarding and day school, with Rev. Fr. Pius as its head. There were about fifty pupils, a dozen being boarders. The new school was the "Boys" section of the Convent. For three years it was officially considerd as a section of the Convent but in January 1907 the school took a corporate existence. Rev. Fr. Pius become its First Rector and Rev. Fr. Augustine and Gervais continued on the staff. Boys were prepared for the examination of the Allahabad University till about 1912, when the Cambridge syllabus was adopted.In 1972, the school was affiliated to the Central Board of Education. The hostel which housed studentsfrom all over India was closed down in 1985. The School turned co-ed in 2014-15.