St Aloysius’ Anglo-indian High School

St Aloysius’ Anglo-Indian High School is the oldest Catholic institution in Visakhapatnam and was the centre of catholic activity for almost a century. The School is in the oldest part of the city which is now called the Fort Area, near the sea-shore. It was a complex consisting of a school, a workshop, Bishop’s House and a Church, spread out into many buildings, small and big.When the first Missionaries of St. Francis de Sales reached Visakhapatnam in 1846, there was an army school in the Fort for the children of the military personnel, conducted on Protestant lines, imparting elementary education. St Aloysius’ Anglo-Indian High School The army paid a special allowance for the school-going children. Fr. Tissot, the first M.S.F.S. resident priest at once understood the necessity of a Catholic School. So, already in 1847 they acquired a small house near the beach with two rooms jutting out to the sea (these still remain on the eastern corner of the school), and started a school. The boys were entrusted to an Army Sergeant and the girls to the wife of a soldier. This was the first Catholic School of Visakhapatnam.