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|motto          = ''Knowledge through Discipline''

The first Principal was Lt. Col. S Mazumdar.<ref name="flag"/> Col Pala Ram was a legendary headmaster during the mid 1990s. Some of the renowned teachers include Mr. Tarapada Das, (Late) Mr. Dilip Kumar Sinha, Mr. Ajit Kumar Saha and Mr. [[Bir Bhanu]] Giri, all awarded [[President of India]] [[National Award for Teachers (India)]]. Among the alumni many have done work of national and international importance. Mr. S.B. Ganguly is the first winner of the SSP SWIFT Teaching Excellence Award. Murli Manohar Kumar is the first Joydeep Chatterjee Scholar, an award started in the memory of Late Capt Chatterjee by alumni from different batches. Abhishek Kumar Roy is the first Priyanath Mukhopadhyay Scholar.<ref>{{cite web|last=Cantor |first=Doug |url=http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/priyadeep-scholarship-started-in-sainik-school/90073/ |title=Priyadeep Scholarship started in Sainik School |publisher=business-standard.com |date=2012-12-07 |access-date=2012-12-07}}</ref> Shubham Kumar Singh is the first winner of Lt (IN) Deb Shankar Mitra Scholarship, an award started in the memory of Late Lt Deb Shankar Mitra. Divyajeet Chaudhary and Abhijeet Sadhu are the inaugural winners of Class of 1993 scholarship for the best all rounder in class XI and XII respectively.

Late Cadet Amit Raj sacrificed his own life while saving the lives of 3 kids was a tenth class student of [[Sainik School]], Purulia and he belonged to [[Nalanda district|Nalanda]] district of [[Bihar]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=The Indian Hawk|first=Indian Defence News|date=15 January 2021|title=15-year-old Cadet Amit Raj of Sainik School, Sacrifices his life while saving kids from fire|work=[[The Indian Hawk]]|url=https://www.theindianhawk.com/2020/12/15-year-old-cadet-amit-raj-of-sainik-school-sacrifices-his-life-while-saving-kids-from-fire.html|access-date=25 December 2020}}</ref>

|Awarded [[Vishisht Seva Medal]] twice in 2002 and 2009<ref>{{cite web|url=http://e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=25..260109.jan09 |title=Manipuri army brigadier among award winners {{pipe}} Avijit Misra {{pipe}} {{pipe}} E-PAO |website=e-pao.net |date=2009-01-25 |access-date=2012-06-20}}</ref><ref>http://classic.kanglaonline.com/index.php?template=printkshow&kid=912&Idoc_Session=b035bf5a56c1bd132d874bc51525bea4</ref>

|Professor of Computer Science & Biomolecular Science and Engineering, UC Santa Barbara<ref>http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~ambuj/</ref> President and CEO, Acelot<ref>http://www.acelot.com/company.html</ref>

|Noted artist and pioneer of Papier Colles technique<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/piece-of-work/1007531 |title=Piece of work |publisher=indianexpress.com |date=2012-09-25 |access-date=2013-04-23}}</ref> Sr Assoc Professor at Tolani Institute.<ref>http://www.tolani.edu/tmi/index,171.html</ref>