Cathedral and John Connon School

The Cathedral & John Connon School is a co-educational private school founded in 1860 and located in Fort, Mumbai, Maharashtra. The school is widely considered to be amongst the best and most prestigious schools in India, housing five sections: Pre-Primary, Infant, Junior, Middle and Senior Schools. The school also controls the 300-year-old St. Thomas Cathedral. CAJCS was founded to provide choristers to the Church. History In 1860 Bishop Harding and the Cathedral Chaplain opened a grammar school within the walled city of Bombay along with a smaller establishment for girls. These were the first of many strands that have joined to form the Cathedral and John Connon School. A Choir School was established in 1875 with the objective of providing choristers for the St. Thomas Cathedral, Mumbai, the first Anglican Church in the city. Meanwhile, the Bombay Scottish Education Society was founded in 1866. The society put up a building on the Esplanade, and named it for John Connon (then Chief Registrar of Bombay).