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Kanchenjunga Collegiate School was founded in 1974 in Kupondole, Lalitpur, built to offer demanding academic scholarship paired with traditional collegiate discipline. Fifty-two years later we still teach with the same intellectual rigor, and we still read the roll aloud every morning.
The house system, the prefects, the Saturday lecture and the leaving examination have all survived. What changed is everything behind them: modern digital laboratories, a dedicated computing block, and an experienced faculty of ninety-two.
The reasons Lalitpur families have given for fifty-two years, in the order parents usually give them.
The average member of faculty has taught here for fourteen years.
Eighty-seven NEB distinctions in the last series, and a full SEE pass.
Saturday tutorials from Grade 9 — compulsory, small and free.
Three laboratories and the only school observatory in the district.
Forty-one students on full fee remission this year, preserving our founding commitment.
Four houses, and a place in one for every student from the first assembly.
“Sapientia et Virtus”
Wisdom and virtue
The foundations: Nepali, English, mathematics and the beginnings of the sciences.
Subject masters take over, the laboratories open, and the first house colours are awarded.
Two years of preparation for the SEE, with compulsory Saturday tutorials from Ashwin.
NEB Science, Management and Humanities, with the university counselling office attached.
The central collegiate hall where assemblies, public lectures, and internal examinations take place.
Three fully-equipped physics, chemistry, and biology laboratories and the college astronomical telescope.
Over 14,000 catalogued volumes, national and foreign journals, and quiet individual reading desks.
Dedicated computer laboratory with high-speed internet for programming and curriculum projects.
Dedicated courts for basketball, volleyball, table tennis, and athletics training.
Chaperoned bus services connecting Kupondole with Lalitpur, Kathmandu, and Bhaktapur routes.
The foundations: Nepali, English, mathematics and the beginnings of the sciences.
Subject masters take over, the laboratories open, and the first house colours are awarded.
Two years of preparation for the SEE, with compulsory Saturday tutorials from Ashwin.
NEB Science, Management and Humanities, with the university counselling office attached.
The foundations: Nepali, English, mathematics and the beginnings of the sciences.
Subject masters take over, the laboratories open, and the first house colours are awarded.
Two years of preparation for the SEE, with compulsory Saturday tutorials from Ashwin.
NEB Science, Management and Humanities, with the university counselling office attached.
Founded 1976. Meets Friday, motions posted Monday.
Publishes the college magazine each Chaitra, in Nepali and English.
Runs the observatory evenings and the Ashad exhibition.
Sings at Founder’s Day, prize giving and the leavers’ service.
Track, cross-country and the inter-house sports in Mangsir.
Field expeditions across the Bagmati valley and Shivapuri hills each Kartik.
Points are awarded for athletics, debate, drama, music and academic standing. The cup has been won by Jannu nineteen times, which the other three houses do not consider settled.
Grades 11 and 12 teach evening literacy classes in three Lalitpur community centres, run the library, and take the junior school’s reading hour. It is a requirement, not a club.
“We are not interested in being modern. We are interested in being right.”
Principal since 2021 and a master of physics here since 2008. He has read the roll at every morning assembly he has been present for.
Ninety-two masters and staff. The heads of each division, and the people who run the college.
Last session’s SEE and NEB results, read out in the main hall as they have been since 1974.
Nine thousand four hundred on the register. A few of the names the college is asked about most.
“What the college gave me was the habit of finishing things. I have not found a better thing to be given.”
“The Saturday tutorials taught me to argue with a problem until it gave in. I still work that way.”
“The drawing and geometry classes in the old quadrangle taught me to appreciate traditional Newar architecture.”
“Every essay came back covered in ink. I mark my own students the same way.”
My father sat his leaving examination in that hall in 1981. My daughter sat hers in the same room last Poush. Very little needed to be explained to either of them.
The Saturday tutorials are hard on a fifteen-year-old and I complained about them for a year. She got a distinction in additional mathematics, so I have stopped.
What the college gave me was the habit of finishing things. I have not found a better thing to be given.
“I came in Grade 6 knowing nobody. By Ashad I was in Kumbhakarna house, on the debating side, and unable to walk across the quadrangle without being stopped.”
My father sat his leaving examination in that hall in 1981. My daughter sat hers in the same room last Poush. Very little needed to be explained to either of them.
“The Saturday tutorials are hard on a fifteen-year-old and I complained about them for a year. She got a distinction in additional mathematics, so I have stopped.”
“What the college gave me was the habit of finishing things. I have not found a better thing to be given.”
“I came in Grade 6 knowing nobody. By Ashad I was in Kumbhakarna house, on the debating side, and unable to walk across the quadrangle without being stopped.”
My father sat his leaving examination in that hall in 1981. My daughter sat hers in the same room last Poush. Very little needed to be explained to either of them.
The Saturday tutorials are hard on a fifteen-year-old and I complained about them for a year. She got a distinction in additional mathematics, so I have stopped.
What the college gave me was the habit of finishing things. I have not found a better thing to be given.
I came in Grade 6 knowing nobody. By Ashad I was in Kumbhakarna house, on the debating side, and unable to walk across the quadrangle without being stopped.
The choir, the magazine, the prizes and the reading of the leavers, every Chaitra in the main hall.
Two days of athletics in Mangsir and the eight-kilometre cross-country along the southern ridge.
The Science Society opens the three laboratories and the observatory to the district.
Motions posted Monday, argued Friday — every week since 1976.
The choir, the magazine, the prizes and the reading of the leavers, every Chaitra in the main hall.
Two days of athletics in Mangsir and the eight-kilometre cross-country along the southern ridge.
The Science Society opens the three laboratories and the observatory to the district.
Motions posted Monday, argued Friday — every week since 1976.
The choir, the magazine, the prizes and the reading of the leavers, every Chaitra in the main hall.
Two days of athletics in Mangsir and the eight-kilometre cross-country along the southern ridge.
The Science Society opens the three laboratories and the observatory to the district.
Motions posted Monday, argued Friday — every week since 1976.
Sixty-three students, four masters and the historic red-brick collegiate hall overlooking the Bagmati.
The first twelve girls join Grade 6; the house system is redrawn around them.
Three laboratories and the observatory, funded entirely by alumni subscription.
NEB Grades 11 and 12 open with Science and Management; Humanities follows in 2015.
Prayer, national anthem and the day’s notices.
The day’s core subjects come first.
Lunch and play on the ground.
Clubs, sports and music.
Buses leave from the front gate.
First assembly, roll call and the reading of the founding deed.
All grades sit in the main hall. Results read out by house.
Two days of athletics and the annual valley cross-country run.
The choir sings, the magazine appears, and the leavers are read out.
| 9:20 | 10:05 | 10:50 | 11:35 | 12:15 | 1:00 | 1:45 | 2:30 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday | English | Mathematics | Physics | Break | Nepali | Social Studies | Additional Maths | Games |
| Monday | Mathematics | Chemistry | English | Break | Nepali | Biology | Computer | Library |
| Tuesday | Physics | Nepali | Mathematics | Break | English | Social Studies | Chemistry | Choir |
| Wednesday | Nepali | Biology | English | Break | Mathematics | Additional Maths | Social Studies | Drill |
| Thursday | English | Social Studies | Mathematics | Break | Physics | Nepali | Computer | Debating Society |
| Friday | Mathematics | Chemistry | English | Break | Nepali | House Meeting |
| Stream | Compulsory | Choose from |
|---|---|---|
| Science | English, Nepali, Mathematics | Physics, Chemistry, Biology or Computer Science |
| Management | English, Nepali, Social Studies | Accountancy, Economics, Business Studies, Business Mathematics |
| Humanities | English, Nepali, Social Studies | History, Political Science, Sociology, Major English |
Registration for the Magh entrance examination is open at the college office. Grade 11 admission follows the SEE results.
Registration for the Magh entrance examination opens in Poush at the college office.
Papers in Nepali, English and mathematics, taken in the main hall.
Shortlisted candidates and their parents meet the principal and the head of the relevant division.
Offers are posted in Falgun. Houses are allotted before the first assembly.
Tell us about your child and the class you are looking for. The admissions office will call you back — or print the admission form and bring it to the office.
Fill in the form — our admissions office calls you back.
Tour the campus and meet our teachers and principal.
A short, friendly assessment for the class applied for.
Submit the documents and complete enrolment.
The second Saturday of Magh, in the main hall. Registration closes a fortnight beforehand and no late entries are taken.
Yes. The founding deed requires that no deserving student be refused on grounds of cost; forty-one students are on full fee remission this year and a further ninety on partial merit and need awards.
Yes — Grade 11 admission is on SEE results, with places in Science, Management and Humanities. Applications open the week results are published.
The documents parents ask the office for most.
Fill in the enquiry form, then press “Print admission form” for the A4 copy to bring in.
Terms, exams and holidays for the year, in Bikram Sambat.
Admission, monthly and annual charges for every class.
The list for every class, for the new session.
Routes, stops and pick-up times for this session.
We normally reply within one working day.
A block of writing is for anything the designed sections do not cover — a notice, a policy, a letter to parents. It takes bold, italics, links and lists, and sits in Kanchenjunga Collegiate School’s own type.
Below it: a picture with a caption, a row of buttons and a line to separate one thing from the next.
Registration opens in Poush at the college office. Past papers from the last five years are available to any family who asks for them.