Jenkins School

Jenkins School is a boys school in the Indian state of West Bengal. It was established in 1861 in the town of Cooch Behar.

History
After the independence of India in 1947, the princely state of Cooch Behar was merged with India in 1950 as Cooch Behar district within West Bengal, and Jenkins School was declared as one of the state government schools. During that period many teachers joined the school under the patronage of the then king of Cooch Behar, Maharaja Jagaddipendra Narayan and the government of West Bengal. Between the late 1940s and the early 1960s, the school flourished under the leadership of headmaster Kalipada Mukherjee. The Maharaja also employed Sailen Datta, a veteran cricketer of the Bengal cricket team for the upliftment of sports education in the school.

The National Award for Teachers was given to Prabodh Chandra Goswami, a popular mathematics teacher in Jenkins School in 1958, the first year that the award was instituted.

The 100-year anniversary of Jenkins School was celebrated in January 1961. January 2011 saw the celebration of 150 years of the institution.

The first line of the school anthem is "Moder Jenkins School, Biharo Tirthe Amar-o Kirti, Banir Punnyo Deoul…."

Notable alumni

 * Charu Chandra Dutt, revolutionary, writer
 * Rai Choudhury Sushil Kumar Chakravarty, Fourth Minister, Cooch Behar State
 * Rai Saheeb Uma Nath Dutta, Civil and Sessions Judge, Revenue Officer (Dewan), Cooch Behar State
 * Dr. Bhabendra Narayan
 * Ambika Charan Roy, Law Practitioner, Social Reformer, Sitarist, Chairman Baharampur Municipality
 * Dr. Dinesha Nanda Chakravarty, Minister, Cooch Behar State Council
 * Prafulla Chandra Mustofi, musician
 * Nirmal Chandra Mustofi, Frist Class Magistrate, Cooch Behar State, philanthropist and erudite
 * Himadri Ballav Biswas, Civil and Sessions Judge, Cooch Behar State
 * Ashruman Das Gupta, Household Minister, Cooch Behar State, Writer
 * Rajendra Nath Sen, Player, Mohun Bagan Club
 * Shoilesh Chandra Mustofi, Orchid specialist and Horticulturist
 * Rai Saheeb Lalit Mohan Bakshi, Revenue Secretary and Development Commissioner, Cooch Behar State, Deputy Collector, Cooch Behar District
 * Col. Nitya Nanda Chakravarty, I.M.S.
 * Bireshwar Bakshi, Civil and Sessions Judge
 * Suresh Chandra Singha, F.R.C.S.
 * Tarapada Mukhopadhyay, Civil and Sessions Judge, Cooch Behar State
 * Kumar Surendra Narayan, Player, Mohun Bagan Club
 * Bhabani Prasanna Talukdar, Member, Legislative Assembly
 * Rai Saheeb Surendra Kanta Basu Majumder, State Pleader, Member, Legislative Council, Cooch Behar State
 * Tulsi Lahiri, Bengali actor, director and play writer
 * Shailen Roy (Bana Roy), Music Composer and Lyricist
 * Abbasuddin Ahmed, singer
 * Subodh Kumar Chakraborty, Writer
 * Mustafa Kamal, former Chief Justice of Bangladesh and Chairman of Law Commission
 * Sarat Singha,Player, Mohun Bagan Club
 * Dr. Amiya Bhushan Guha, chairman, Cooch Behar Municipality
 * Arun Das Gupta, Player, Mohun Bagan Club