Presentation Convent Girls High School 3.65

Presentation Convent High School Rawalpindi, is a missionary school located in Lalkurti area of Rawalpindi Cantonment, Pakistan.In 1895 Mother Ignatius McDermott, Sr. Xavier Lonergan and Sr. Evangelist Coatsworth arrived in Rawalpindi from Madras. The first Mass was celebrated on 8 September 1895 and the school was opened on 1 October- with ‘three Sisters, three pupils’. The school was for children of Christian parents, the sons and daughters of army personnel, British and Irish. Since then, thousands have attended Presentation Convent, belonging to all religious denominations.HistoryToday in Pakistan there are branches of this school catering for the educational needs of a total of around thirteen thousand children in Urdu and English-medium schools. These schools, which are managed by Pakistani and Irish sisters, are under the administration of the original Rawalpindi school.There are Presentation schools in Rawalpindi, Murree, Jhelum, Sargodha, (Khushab District), Wah, Peshawar, Risalpur, Mingora (Swat) and Sindh.