St. Xavier’s School Doranda was started by Jesuit fathers at the request of public in January 1960.The school is an English medium school .The school is affiliated to the council for Indian school certificate examination, New Delhi. it also has a plus two section .The school is owned and run by Jesuit fathers under the name of St. Xavier’s Doranda, a registered society which also constitutes the governing body .The governing body has the sole authority in policy and decision making of the school .The responsible of the day by day running of the school is vested the principal for the high school and in the head master for the primary section .The society of Jesus a catholic religious order, founded by saint Ignatius of Loyola, a Spaniard, in 1540, has been active in the field of education through out the world since its origin .The society’s institutions are part of Catholic Church's effort to be at the service of whole nation while being particularly responsible towards the Catholic community .The freedom of conscience and religious feelings of all our students are respected but external worship other than Catholic is not permitted in school premises.
 

Francis Xavier was born in 1506 in the Basque region of Spain and died at the age of 46 on the small island of Sancian in 1551, facing China. He had become the most famous missionary after St. Paul. As a youth, his ambition was to become a distinguished scholar and to climb the ladder of success in the clerical world. To realize this, he needed to study much more than what he had picked up at home. He went to the University of Paris, then the most famous centre of ecclesiastical studies. He left his home and would never see his family again. The lord was waiting for him in Paris, He happened to share the same hostel – room with St.lgnatius. Realizing the great potential hidden beneath Francis worldliness set about to bring him around. It took a long time, but once he was won over, his commitment was total and unreserved. Like St. Ignatius, he had only one ambition: “to save souls for the greater glory of God”.

When the first companions of St. Ignatius offered their services to the Pope, Francis was sent to India, as legate of the Pope, and then began the “Xavier Epic”. His apostolic ventures took him to Goa, Cochin, the Fishery Coast, Cape Comorian, Malacca, the Malaccan Islands, and Japan. Xavier was a fiery and restless person: fiery by nature and restless…. because of his burning zeal for the kingdom of God. His missionary life had a some what regular pattern: intense activity with people during the day, which impelled him to commune with God in the peaceful silence of the night. His main weapon was his extraordinary trust in God. Against all human advice, he went to the most dangerous places and crossed the most dangerous seas. His greatest asset was his holiness: a man totally dedicated to God and living only for the salvation of souls; no sacrifice was too great; he did not spare himself. His dress was casual; he usually traveled barefoot in summer and winter, on the hot soil of India and in the deep snow of Japan; his meals were frugal and he often fasted. He sowed the seed of the Christian faith in many places of S. Asia; finally he set out for china. On the small island of Sancian, at the door of China, he died a lonely death of Dec.3, 1552. We are proud to have St. Francis Xavier as the patron saint of our school. May he always inspire us to follow more closely in the foot- steps of Christ.