St Gabrial High School

We have been here at St Gabrial High School for a while now. Our place is on the first floor of Thirumala Plaza. If you know the 2nd Main in Dattagalli, you probably passed by us many times. It is a busy area in Mysore. We started this school because the neighborhood needed a place where local kids could go without traveling too far. The classrooms are simple. We don't have fancy stuff but the teachers show up every morning and do the work. You can hear the children playing or reciting lessons if you walk down the 3rd Stage streets. Sometimes the plaza gets a bit crowded but we manage. There is a lot of noise during the breaks. We have desks that have seen better days and walls that we try to keep clean. Most of the families around here know us by name. It is just a regular school where we try to teach the basics. Parents come by to talk about their kids' grades or just to see how things are going. We keep the doors open and people come in and out all day. It is not a huge campus with big fields, just a few rooms where learning happens. Dattagalli is growing fast so there are always new faces. We see the kids grow up from small children into teenagers before they move on. It is quite a thing to see every year when the new batch starts.