Milton Residential School

Milton Residential School is out in Kummapatti, in the Virudhunagar district. Being a residential school, it’s a bit different from the day schools in the towns. The kids live here, so the place never really sleeps. It starts very early with the morning bell and the sound of students heading to the dining hall for breakfast. You can smell the cooking from the kitchen long before you see the food. The classrooms are just a short walk from the dormitories. The buildings are spread out a bit, and there is a lot of open ground which is nice for the evening hours. Kummapatti is a quiet place, away from the big city noise, which helps the students focus a bit more on their books. The staff often stays on the grounds too, so it feels like a small village of its own. We have the usual blackboards and stacks of textbooks in every room. The library has some old books that have been read many times. In the evenings, you can see everyone out on the fields playing or just sitting around. It gets quite dark and still at night once the lights in the hostels go out. It’s a simple life here, centered around the school schedule and the needs of the students who call this place home for most of the year. We just keep things moving along as best as we can.