Don Bosco Park Circus

Don Bosco School, Park Circus, located at 23, Darga Road, Kolkata, India, is an all-boys English medium school imparting education from first through twelfth grade. Established in 1958, it is run by the Salesians of Don Bosco, which is a minority institution within theCatholic Church. The school operates under the Indian Certificate of Secondary Educationboard.
The motto of the institution is Virtus et Scientia, meaning "Virtue and Knowledge".
The school started on 31 January 1957 and completed 50 years in 2007.
St Dominic Savio is the patron saint of the school. Dominic Savio (Italian: Domenico Savio; April 2, 1842 – March 9, 1857^[1][2]) was an Italian adolescent student of Saint John Bosco. He was studying to be a priest when he became ill and died at the age of 14, possibly frompleurisy.^[3]
His teacher, John Bosco, had very high regard for Savio, and wrote a biography of his young student, The Life of Dominic Savio. This volume, along with other accounts of him, were critical factors in his cause for sainthood. Despite the fact that many people considered him to have died at too young an age – fourteen – to be considered for sainthood, he was considered eligible for such singular honour on the basis of his having displayed "heroic virtue" in his everyday life.^[4] He is the only saint of his age group, which includes Maria Goretti and Ponticus of Lyons,^[5] who was declared to be a saint not on the basis of his having been a martyr, but on the basis of having lived what was seen as a holy life. He was canonised a Saint on June 12, 1954 by Pope Pius XII,^[6] making him the youngest non-martyr to be canonised in the Catholic Church.^[7]

• 1957-1959 Rev Fr Charles Dyer
• 1959-1965 Rev Fr Anthony Dorob
• 1965-1966 Rev Fr Rozario Stroscio
• 1966-1968 Rev Fr Nicholas Logroi
• 1968-1974 Rev Fr Attilio Colussi
• 1974-1980 Rev Fr Patrick Sheehy
• 1980-1986 Rev Fr TP George
• 1986-1989 Rev Fr PP Verkey
• 1989-1992 Rev Fr EV Chacko
• 1992-1995 Rev Fr Pulickal
• 1995-2001 Rev Fr MA Joseph
• 2001-2007 Rev Fr TV Jacob
• 2007–present Rev Fr Siby Joseph

DBPC uses the house system to foster a sense of competition and belonging. The four houses are Savio (red), Bosco(blue), Francis (yellow), and Rua (green). All activities in the school are organized according to the houses.
The Student Council comprises a select best who are the school leaders and student representatives.

The school has been consistently performing well in the ICSE and ISC examinations. In the academic year 2008-2009, the students secured a school average of 85.87% in the ICSEexaminations and 87.38% in the ISC examinations, which is the highest in the city (Kolkata), and one of the highest in the country. In the academic year 2010-2011, the students secured a school average of 85.24% in the ICSE examination and 88.12% in the ISC examination, which is also the highest in Kolkata and one of the highest in the country.
Don Bosco sports have coaching classes for each sport, the coaching classes are free for the players on the school team. The sports are:

• Basketball is the most popular sport in Don Bosco. There are two basketball courts. The school U-19 team is ranked at No.6 out of all teams (state and school level) throughout India. A yearly tournament called the 'Bosco Challenge Shield' is held in October–November and is the most popular tournament of the Kolkata schools. Don Bosco had never lost the tournament for 26 years till 2007. The team won back the Bosco Challenge shield in 2009. The school has produced players famous in the state including Dennis Osta,Nigel Shepard, Dishmit Singh, Kevin Liao, Bernard Lee, Uchit Madhok and most recently,Francisco R. Mendes.
• Cricket is a popular sport. Players play on the state teams.

• Football: over the past decade the football team has won several Inter School Catholic Schools and Inter Anglo Indian Schools Tournaments. A yearly tournament was started in the school from the 2007-2008 school year.
• Table-Tennis
• Badminton is popular during winter and is one of the newer sports introduced in the school.

There is a games room where students can play games like carrom and chess.
The school offers coaching classes for basketball, cricket, football, table tennis and karate.
The school has teams for rowing, golf, squash, tennis, badminton and swimming.
The school has science laboratories and two computer laboratories. Facilities for sports include two basketball courts, a table tennis room, a skating rink and a football ground. The school has an auditorium with Dolby Digital Surround compatible sound system and JBL acoustics. The school has two Audio-Visual Rooms.

• The Dramatic Group encourages student participation in drama and theatre and has produced fine actors ,including the now semi-professional Soumendro Bhattacharya, Soumya Mukherjee, Soham Mazumdar,Romit Roy, Debarpan Ghosh, Ayan Bhattacharjee and Rrivu Banerjee among others.
• The Cyber Space Group is the computer science group fostering an interest in computers and Information Technology.
• Boy Scouts is an international movement for young boys. The scouts were National Champions in the 10th NationalBoscoree held at Chennai in 2006 and will retain the title till 2010.
• Media and Cultural Group organizes cultural events and provides a platform to the students to showcase their talents in fields like debates, elocution, extempore speech and music.It has produced acclaimed debaters like Francisco Mendes , Soumya Mukherjee,Debarpan Ghosh etc.
• Leadership Training Service helps the student to develop leadership skills through activities.
• Young Christian Students upholds the vision of Cardinal Joseph Cardijn.
• Interact Group is an international social service organization at the secondary school level. The Interact movement of the school functions under the guidance of its parent body, Rotary Club of Metropolitan East, Dist. 3290. The purpose of Interact is to provide opportunity for the youth to work together, foster leadership, friendship, international understanding and goodwill. The group is a subsidiary of Rotary International.
• Quiz Group promotes the extra-curricular activity of quizzing. The Quiz group of this esteemed institution has always been formidable, being the best in the city and culminating in 2010's 'Golden Team' ,that includes notable quizzers Apratim Chattaraj, Arkaprabha Chakraborty, Avik Debnath, Pushan Banerjee, Sarthak Chatterjee and Kaustuv Dasgupta, sweeping most of the major inter-school quizzes through the year. Currently, the Quiz Group houses emerging talents like Kevin John Kaisar, Shirsho Dasgupta, Soham Ghosh, Tirthankar Mukhopadhyay and Ayushman Datta (who is also the lead guitarist of the school band).
• Savio promotes sports and games. Savio organizes intra-school and inter-school tournaments during the academic year.
• Philately and Numismatics Group develops the hobby of stamp and coin collection.
• Science Group. which promotes interest in Scientific Research.
• Nature Group, the group with an outlook to save nature.