| Loyola Higher Secondary School, Kuppayanallur | |
| Type: | Private secondary school |
| Religion: | Catholicism |
| Gender: | Co-educational |
| Denomination: | Jesuits |
| Oversight: | Jesuits Chennai Mission |
| Staff: | 33 |
| Grades: | 6 through 12[1] |
| City: | Kuppayanallur, Kanchipuram district |
| State: | Tamil Nadu |
| Country: | India |
| Language: | Tamil |
Loyola Higher Secondary School is a private Catholic secondary school located in Kuppayanallur, in the Kanchipuram district of Tamil Nadu, India. The Tamil-medium, co-educational high school was founded by the Jesuits in 1995[2] and educates students from grades six through twelve.
Loyola Higher Secondary School was upgraded from the parish primary school in Ongur, a close-by village, to a middle school, then a high school and finally to a higher secondary school.[3] The first batch of 59 SSLC Students wrote their public exam in 1997 and secured 71% pass, which had risen to 95.4% in 2007. The school is recognized but not aided by the Tamil Nadu government.[4] It is a co-educational Tamil-medium school run by the Jesuits preferentially for the education of the Dalit children of the four Jesuit parishes and more than 20 villages.[5]