Crescent Sr. Sec School

Crescent Sr. Sec School is located right next to the Laxmi Naryan Mandir in the Shimlatotu area of Shimla. It’s a busy little corner of the town. We see the morning mist rolling off the hills most days when we open up the gates. The school building has been here for quite some time now. It’s got that old Shimla feel with the slanted roofs. We spend a lot of our time making sure the heaters are working when the winter sets in. The bells from the temple next door ring at certain times of the day, and we all just work around that sound. It’s part of the background noise here. Our teachers mostly live in the surrounding neighborhoods, so they walk to work. We don't have a big fancy lobby or anything. Just classrooms with wooden desks and a lot of stairs because of the hilly terrain. We handle the usual subjects and try to keep the kids focused. Sometimes monkeys come onto the playground and we have to usher the children inside quickly. It’s just one of those things you deal with in this part of Shimla. We don’t do much advertising. People know us from seeing the kids in their uniforms walking up the steep paths every morning. We just keep the routine going day after day. It’s a practical place for local families to send their children without having to travel too far into the main city center.