Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector-16, Chandigarh

Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector-16 D, Chandigarh राजकीय आदर्श उच्चत्तर माध्यमिक विद्यालय ਸਰਕਾਰੀ ਸਕੂਲ
Location
Sector - 16 D, Chandigarh, UT 160015 India
Information
Other names	GMSSS-16, 16-Model
School type	State-funded, Public High School
Motto	Strive to Rise
Established	1954
Sister school	Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 35, Chandigarh
School board	Central Board of Secondary Education
School code	04828
Principal	Mrs. Neeta Sandhu
Language	English

Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector-16 (often called GMSSS-16 or simply 16-Model) is a State-funded co-educational secondary school located in Chandigarh, India, educating students in grades K–12. Founded in 1954^[1], it is the oldest school in Chandigarh and among the most selective.^[2][3]The school is affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education and offers twenty-three subjects at the AISSCE level^[4], among the highest for any school in the region.^[5][6] It also claims a 100% pass percentage at the All India Secondary School Certificate Examination level.^[4]

The school's main building was designed by Swiss architect Pierre Jeanneret, along with Bhanu Pratap Mathur and Jugal Kishore Chowdhary, in line with his modernist ideals^[7][8] and was inaugurated by the then Commissioner of the Union Territory of Chandigarh in 1954.

Academics

16-Model has emphasized academic achievement ever since its founding in the early 1950s. As a result, its graduating class routinely excels at the annual school leaving examination the AISSCE, as well as India's highly competitive national standardized tests including the Joint Entrance Examination, the NEET and the AIIMS Examination. As many as twenty students from the graduating cohort of the school make it to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology, with many more winning places at the National Institutes of Technology and the Punjab Engineering College.

Notable Alumni

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