STS School

Syedna Tahir Saifuddin School, better known by its initials STS School, and by its former name Minto Circle, is a K–12 semi-residential high school under Aligarh Muslim University at Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India. Established by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan as Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental Collegiate School in 1875, it later evolved as Aligarh Muslim University and is one of the five senior secondary schools run by the university.

Syedna Tahir Saifuddin
Location
AMU Road, Aligarh

India
Information
Other nameSTS School
Former names
  • Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental Collegiate School
  • Minto Circle
TypeGovernment
MottoCome to learn, Learn to serve
Established1875 (1875)
FounderSyed Ahmad Khan
PrincipalFaisal Nafis
GradesK–12
Campus typeResidential and Non-Residential
AffiliationAMU
Websiteamu.ac.in/schools/s-t-s-school/home-page

The school aims primarily at the education of the Muslim community. Admission, however, is open to children of all communities without distinction of caste and creed. The school has an all-India and all-denominational membership. There is provision for nearly three hundred students to reside in the hostels within the campus. The total strength of the school is around two thousand students.

Henry George Impey Siddons was the first head master of this school.

The current principal is Mr. Faisal Nafis.

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