Harcourt Butler Sr. Sec. School


Harcourt Butler Senior Secondary School is an old boys school at Mandir Marg in Delhi, India. The school is aided by the Government of Delhi, and is affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education. It is one of the oldest schools in Delhi, and has been awarded a heritage prize by the Govt of Delhi.
It provides education from Class 1 to Class 12 offering three streams of Science, Commerce, and Arts in English and Hindi languages. This is the only Govt aided school providing the Engineering drawing subject for class 11th and 12th.

History

The school was founded in 1889 by a Bengali society, and was originally known as Bengali Boys School. The matriculation exams were conducted by the University of the Punjab.
In 1917, the British government took over its control, and started funding its operations for the wards of British India Government employees. The existing structure of Harcourt Butler School was set up by Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler in 1917. Sir Harcourt was the first Member for Education in the Viceroy’s Executive Council in British India. Pre World War II, the school used to operate from Delhi for the six months in winter, and from Shimla for the six months in summer, as the capital of British India would move annually.
In 2010s, its premises were decorated with art by the Delhi Street Art of Yogesh Saini.

Notable alumni