Jupiter High School

We've been situated here on Kurnool Road for quite some time now. Most folks in Ongole know where Srinagar 1st Lane is, right by Door No 6-124B1. It’s just a regular school building where we spend most of our daylight hours. You can hear the kids shouting during the breaks from the street. The gate stays open in the morning for the bus, and then it's mostly just quiet lessons until lunch rolls around. We’ve got a lot of desks that need dusting more often than they get it. The staff room is usually a bit of a mess with notebooks and half-finished tea cups sitting around. It’s not fancy. The paint on the walls in the hallway has seen better days, but it does the job. When the rainy season hits, the lane gets a bit muddy, so everyone has to be careful walking in. We spend a lot of time just keeping things running. Teaching is hard work, and the building keeps us busy with repairs here and there. It’s a local place. Sometimes parents drop by just to chat about how their kids are doing or to drop off a forgotten lunch box. We don’t have any big corporate offices. It’s just us here in the middle of Srinagar 1st Lane. We see the same faces every morning and that's just how it goes for us in Ongole. It's a normal life at Jupiter High School.