Welham Boys' School


Welham Boys' School is an all-boys private boarding school in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, established in 1937 by Hersilia Susie Oliphant, an English educationist. The school is affiliated with CBSE and has been ranked as the no. 1 boys' boarding school in the country as per the Education World rankings 2022.
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History

Welham was founded in 1937 as a preparatory school for boarding schools in England and India, by Miss Hersilia Susie Oliphant, an English lady, with a capital of £1000. There were no funds or staff, and no school buildings. Today the ratio of teachers to students on campus stands at 9:1.
She named the school after her home village of Welham, Nottinghamshire. She later founded a sister school, Welham Girls' School.
In 1956 Miss Oliphant donated all her assets to the Welham Boys' School, which presently is administered by a board of trustees. Mr. S. K. Kandhari took over as principal in January 1983.
Today the Welham Boys' School is an active member of the Round Square group of cooperation. The school hosts model united nations conferences as well as military awareness seminars

Campus

Some major sites are the Learning Resource Center, the Activity Center, the White House, Bethany, the hospital, the main field, lower grounds and various other fields, courts and ranges for sports.
The residencies are primarily the Oliphant House for Junior School, Shikhar Hostel for Jamuna and Ganga houses, Triveni for Cauvery house and Woodseats for Krishna house.

Notable alumni