By Karlheinz Neumann | Founder and Project Leader
In the Keshwa Gurukul School in our Keshwa Child Welfare Center in Sonbhadra, the 2025-2026 school year ended on March 31st, and the new 2026-2027 period began immediately afterward.
The last school year was very successful. A total of 222 children took part in the final exams. This is the first time we have exceeded 200 participants.
We now offer classes from Lower Kindergarten up to grade 8. The number of students in each grade was as follows:
LKG: 38
UKG: 27
Grade 1: 49
Grade 2: 30
Grade 3: 26
Grade 4: 24
Grade 5: 18
Grades 6, 7, and 8: 10 each
The decrease in enrollment from grade 4 onward is due to the fact that our school only opened in 2022, and students in the higher grades joined our Keshwa Gurukul School from other schools.
We expect to see an increase in the number of children in the upper grades in the coming years due to the natural progression of students to the next age group.
Naturally, there are also significant differences in the marks achieved in the exams by students in the individual classes. This is partly due to the fact that we were able to persuade many parents to send their children to the school, even though they were not necessarily keen on doing so. The school's positive development is primarily thanks to the persuasive skills and persistence of our Headmaster, Mr. Satyendrah Bahadur Singh, and our Program Manager, Mr. Hariom Tiwari.
The new academic session started on April 1st, before the long summer break beginning in May, due to the intense heat.
Finally we are very happy that the Government paved the bumpy road to our Keshwa Child Welfare Center.
We are well prepared and look forward to continued positive development. We will not be able to increase the number of students much because we first need to purchase land and then possibly build two more classrooms.
This will take us two to three years, as it is also a question of financing. However, we will purchase two Biswa plots of land this year.
Thank you so much for the tremendous support that makes the operation of this school possible.
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