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'''Olcott Memorial High School''' is a secondary school located in [[Chennai]], [[Tamil Nadu]], [[India]]. It is a free school providing free education, school uniforms, educational materials and nutritious meals to about 500 underprivileged boys and girls. It was started in 1894 by [[Colonel Olcott]] with the intention to provide educational upliftment of [[Paraiyar]] children.<ref name="GoodNews">{{cite news|title=A school for the poor that the rich may envy|url=http://www.goodnewsindia.com/index.php/magazine/story/olcott/P0/|access-date=6 August 2015|newspaper=Good News India|location=India}}</ref>

It was the first Paraiyar school in the city.<ref>{{cite news|title=Caste back into Tamil literary domain |url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/Caste-back-into-Tamil-literary-domain/2013/12/05/article1927893.ece|newspaper=The New Indian Express|date=5 December 2013|location=Chennai, India}}</ref> After the demise of Olcott in 1907, the school was renamed as Olcott Memorial Panchama (Paraiyar) School.<ref>{{cite news|title=Gandhi, Thaatha, ThaLapathy, Kudumbar…|url=http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2009/11/16/gandhi-thaathathalapathy-kudumbar/|newspaper=LankaWeb|date=16 November 2009|location=Sri Lanka}}</ref>

The school provides [[free education]], [[school uniform|uniform]]s, [[textbook|books]], and two daily meals to lot of impoverished rural children in Chennai. The school is a portion of [[Theosophical Society Adyar]]'s charity work. From 1935 to 1998, the school was Government aided. From 1999, Theosophical Society took the responsibility again.<ref name="GoodNews" />

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.ashanet.org/projects/project-view.php?p=360 ashanet] - Olcott Memorial High School - Bridge Project
*[http://www.olcott-school-chennai.org/ Olcott Memorial School]

[[Category:Theosophy]]
[[Category:High schools and secondary schools in Chennai]]
[[Category:Educational institutions established in 1894]]
[[Category:1894 establishments in India]]

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