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Berhampore J. N. Academy (Berhampore Jagannath Academy ) is a Higher Secondary school in Berhampore, Murshidabad. This goverment affiliated school was established in 1941.

Location
182 A.C.Road, PO- Khagra, Berhampore, West Bengal 742103 is the address to the school. The school is in a residential area, surrounded by private houses and apartments. This limits school's size to grow and also a reason of not having its own play ground.

Information
The school used to a secondary school till 2004, and started Higher Secondary classes there after. Starting with science as as only available subject for +2 studies, it now also have Arts. It is a Boys school and have 27 teachers (As of 2013-2014), with 4 contract teachers, 1 Female teacher and 24 teacher with qualification to be a professor. In terms of size the school is less than average and have 517 students (As of 2013-2014) having 20 students per teacher, which is a good number compared to average in India

Study Board
As most of the schools in West Bengal, this school too follows West Bengal Board of Secondary Education up untill class 10 and for Higher Secondary it follows West Bengal Council Of Higher Secondary Education. Session starts in January and ends by December. There are two major exams conducted one at the mid of the session known as Half Yearly exams, and Final exam at the end of the session. Apart from these two, school conducts numerous class test, evaluation tests also. There is another exam conducted only for Class 10 and Class 12 students are commonly known as TEST, this checks the preparation level of students before board exams.

Class Format
As any other high school, Class starts from 5 and goes upto class 12. Each class is divided into two sections, A and B. Sections are decided at the time of joining at the school and remains the same throughout. Class 5 has 5 periods, Class 6 has 6 and from Class 7 till class 12 there are 7 periods ( A period is a 40 min session with a teacher ). There is also a 30 min lunch time after fourth period, from 13:20 to 13:50. Periods starts from 11:00 AM in the morning, but Students are required to come in school by 10:30. Students are gathered in the common area and National Anthem is recited. After that classes start.

Admission to the school are done through admission test. Qualified students are admitted to class 5 and every year by passing the final exam students are promoted to higher classes. For Admission to Higher Secondary classes, Board exam results are crucial. School prefers its own students admission by lowering the cut-off mark, students from other class can also join if the qualify the cut-off marks.

There are also chance of lateral admission but student has to pass an exam in order to get selected.

Disciplines
From class 5 to class 10 students are now allowed to choose their disciplines but to study all subjects under boards syllabus. In Class 10, although students can select one additional subject of their choice. Maths, Physics, Biology, Physical-Work Education, Fishery are the subjects students can choose from for which classes are provided.

From class 11 and class students can choose Pure Science, Bio Science, Geo Science, Geo Arts and Arts.