| Address | IRIKKUR, KANNUR, Kerala |
History
GHSS Irikkur is situated by the side of the Irikkur river. This river is the geographical boarder of the old Kottayam taluk and Chirakkal taluk. The people residing both side of the river mingled together and this cooperation resulted in the formation of Irikkur village.the name "Irikkur" was considered to be formed from the Malayalam word 'iru kara ooru' which means avillage of both side of the river.
The high school was started in1957. The school was recoganised by the malabar dist board.But as there was no building for the school ,the admission was using one room in Kamaliya Madrasa UP School .A temporary thached building was the first building made for the school. Though the Malabar dist Board president was P.T.Bhaskarapaniker,the school was inagurated by the Vice President K.V Moosankutty.In the year 1957-58 eighth std was started. Nineth std was started in 1958-59 and tenthin 1959-60. The first SSlc batch appeared for the exam in march 1960. Out of the 27 students ,7 passed in the exam. The center of exam was Koodali High school. The successful candidates of the first SSLC batch were
1)K.Damodaran nambiar
2)M.Balakrishan nambiar
3)K.V.Gopalan nambiar
4)P.Chandu
5)K.P.Damodaran nambiar
6)K.Padmanabhan nambiar
7)K.Unnikrishan
The first Head master of the school was John master. As he was transfered Abdullah .E.K and Lakshminarayana sastrikal took the charge respectively . T.Subbayya chettiyar was the HM when the first batch of students appeared for the SSLC examination. The first building for the school was inaugurated by the then district collector Sri.Chandra banu IAS. The second building was inaugurated by the then education minister C.H. Muhammed Koya. The number of students in the school gradually increased and the school had to work in shift system. When plus two was started in Kerala ,a plus two batch was also started in this school. The first Humanities batch gained 100% result in the examination and the state first rank was in this school. SSLC result in this school was about 70-85% till 1964.but somehow there was a deep fall in result after this year.For many years the result was as low as 10 -20%.Then there was a gradual increase in the result from 1992. The percentage of SSLC result is shown in the statistics page..
STAFF
HIGH SCHOOL
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|---|---|
| HEADMASTER |
1
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| NATURAL SCIENCE | 3 |
| MATHEMATICS | 4 |
| SOCIAL SCIENCE | 4 |
| ENGLISH | 4 |
| MALAYALAM | 3 |
| ARABIC | 3 |
| HINDI | 3 |
| PHYSICALSCIENCE | 3 |
| DRAWING | 1 |
| PET | 1 |
| CLERK | 1 |
| PEON | 2 |
| FTM | 2 |
PRIMARY
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| P D TEACHERS |
7
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