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'''Baker Memorial Girls Higher Secondary School''' is a girls' [[higher secondary school]] located in [[Kottayam]], [[Kerala]], India. It was established in 1819. It was the first school of its kind established in India. In 1952 to became the first school in the country to start a [[Girl Guides]] unit to promote social service with its students.<ref name="ADDRESS AT THE BICENTENARY CELEBBRATIONS OF BAKER MEMORIAL GIRLS’ HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL AT KOTTAYAM">{{cite web |title=ADDRESS AT THE BICENTENARY CELEBBRATIONS OF BAKER MEMORIAL GIRLS' HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL AT KOTTAYAM |url=http://www.rajbhavan.kerala.gov.in/index.php/speeches1/517-address-at-the-bicentenary-celebbrations-of-baker-memorial-girls-higher-secondary-school-at-kottayam-at-1130-hrs-on-29-01-2019 |website=Kerala Rajbhavan |access-date=16 February 2021}}</ref>

Amelia Dorothea Baker, wife of Henry Baker founded the school in 1819, initially with twelve students.<ref name="(India)1975">{{cite book|author=Kerala (India)|title=Kerala District Gazetteers: Arnakulam|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1lobAAAAIAAJ|access-date=20 February 2021|year=1975|publisher=Superintendent of Government Presses|page=428}}</ref> By 1829 there were 42 students.<ref name="Abraham2020">{{cite book|author=George Abraham|title=Lanterns on the Lanes: Lit for Life…|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RK__DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT289|access-date=20 February 2021|date=28 December 2020|publisher=Notion Press|isbn=978-1-64899-659-7|pages=289–}}</ref> The children were taught textile crafts as well as other subjects, so that they could earn money after they left.<ref name="Abraham2020"/> One of the school's aims was also to make its students fit wives for missionaries and pastors, and sometimes the school contributed to students' [[dowry|dowries]].<ref name="Abraham2020"/>

In 1893 Mrs Baker Jr. and her daughters took charge of the school. It was accorded the status of a lower secondary school by the department of education in 1894 and become 'Miss Bakers School' — a memorial to the early Miss Bakers. The school was upgraded into a high school in 1904 and affiliated to the state government of Kerala in 1952. The school was further upgraded into a Higher Secondary school in 1998. Although the school is Christian it accepts students of all classes and creeds. It has been called "one of the best English Schools in [[Travancore]]".<ref>{{cite book|title=Journal of Educational Planning and Administration|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VWuh1UZzfAsC|access-date=20 February 2021|year=1990|publisher=National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration|page=74}}</ref>

The school celebrated its bicentennial in 2019.<ref>{{cite news |title=Governor to end gender discrimination |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/governor-for-end-to-gender-discrimination/article26123016.ece |access-date=16 February 2021 |work=The Hindu |date=29 January 2019}}</ref> Its motto is "Love Never Faileth.<ref name="ADDRESS AT THE BICENTENARY CELEBBRATIONS OF BAKER MEMORIAL GIRLS’ HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL AT KOTTAYAM">{{cite web |title=ADDRESS AT THE BICENTENARY CELEBBRATIONS OF BAKER MEMORIAL GIRLS' HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL AT KOTTAYAM |url=http://www.rajbhavan.kerala.gov.in/index.php/speeches1/517-address-at-the-bicentenary-celebbrations-of-baker-memorial-girls-higher-secondary-school-at-kottayam-at-1130-hrs-on-29-01-2019 |website=Kerala Rajbhavan |access-date=16 February 2021}}</ref>

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==External links==
* [http://bakergirlshss.in/ Baker Memorial Girls' Higher Secondary School]

[[Category:Education in Kottayam]]
[[Category:Educational institutions established in 1819]]
[[Category:1819 establishments in India]]
[[Category:Girls' schools in Kerala]]
[[Category:High schools and secondary schools in Kerala]]

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