SelaQui International School is a coeducational, residential school located in the village of Selaqui in the Dehradun district of Uttarakhand. It is about 20 km from Dehradun on national highway 72, connecting Dehradun with Paonta Sahib and Chandigarh. The school is affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)[1] and is open to boys and girls from class V onward irrespective of religion, caste, and ethnicity. All students who live on campus are attached to four of the boarding houses named after elements of the earth and supervised by housemasters and matrons. The school is managed by the Gurukul trust, which appoints a board of governors headed by a chairman to oversee the school's functioning. The present chairman is Om Pathak, an ex-Indian Administrative Service officer.[2]
The school was founded in October 2000 as SelaQui World School, the first IB school[clarification needed] in north India.[citation needed] The school started as an IB school but switched to a national curriculum (CBSE) in 2013. The school is managed by Gurukul Trust, a non-profit charitable organization based in Delhi.[3]
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