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/ &#xfeff;</span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">25.24028°N 55.31806°E</span><span style="display:none">&#xfeff; / <span class="geo">25.24028; 55.31806</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header notheme">Information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Private_school" title="Private school">Private</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Motto</th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">Finis Coronat Opus</i></span><br />(The End Crowns the Work)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Religious affiliation(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Established</th><td class="infobox-data">1968<span class="noprint">&#59;&#32;56&#160;years ago</span><span style="display:none">&#160;(<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1968</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founder</th><td class="infobox-data">Eusebius Daveri</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Director</th><td class="infobox-data">Sr. Jacintha Cutinha</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Principal</th><td class="infobox-data">Paul Asir Joseph</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Grades</th><td class="infobox-data">JR1-A/L (Year 1- Year 13)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Gender</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Co-educational" class="mw-redirect" title="Co-educational">Co-educational</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Enrollment</th><td class="infobox-data">2,500+</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Classes offered</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Edexcel" title="Edexcel">Edexcel</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Houses</th><td class="infobox-data">4</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Accreditations</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Edexcel" title="Edexcel">Edexcel</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://stmarysdubai.com">stmarysdubai<wbr />.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>St. Mary's Catholic High School (SMCHS)</b> was established in the year 1968 by Fr. Eusebius Daveri. It is located in the city of Dubai, and is one of the oldest schools in the <a href="/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates" title="United Arab Emirates">UAE</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">7 August</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=History&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.stmarysdubai.com%2Fabout-us%2Fhistory%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASt.+Mary%27s+Catholic+High+School%2C+Dubai%2C+UAE" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBhatia2001" class="citation web cs1">Bhatia, Asha (9 March 2001). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://gulfnews.com/uae/early-days-of-varkey-schools-it-was-a-management-challenge-1.410266">"Early days of Varkey schools: it was a management challenge"</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">7 August</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=Early+days+of+Varkey+schools%3A+it+was+a+management+challenge&amp;rft.date=2001-03-09&amp;rft.aulast=Bhatia&amp;rft.aufirst=Asha&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fgulfnews.com%2Fuae%2Fearly-days-of-varkey-schools-it-was-a-management-challenge-1.410266&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASt.+Mary%27s+Catholic+High+School%2C+Dubai%2C+UAE" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-gulfnews.com-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-gulfnews.com_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gulf News <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://gulfnews.com/uae/former-dubai-based-indian-student-at-forefront-of-decoding-covid-19-genome-in-us-1.1621916446301">"Former Dubai-based Indian student at forefront of decoding COVID-19 genome in US"</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/heritage/2022/02/24/the-senator-from-satwa-dubai-born-indian-american-keen-to-take-uae-culture-to-new-york/">https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/heritage/2022/02/24/the-senator-from-satwa-dubai-born-indian-american-keen-to-take-uae-culture-to-new-york/</a></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.stmarysdubai.com">St. Mary's Catholic High School Dubai Official Website</a></li></ul> <!-- NewPP limit report Parsed by mw‐web.eqiad.main‐7678f45bf4‐nnbm7 Cached time: 20241203081404 Cache expiry: 2475961 Reduced expiry: true Complications: [vary‐revision‐sha1, show‐toc] CPU time usage: 0.381 seconds Real time usage: 0.540 seconds Preprocessor visited node count: 3033/1000000 Post‐expand include size: 27053/2097152 bytes Template argument size: 8575/2097152 bytes Highest expansion depth: 18/100 Expensive parser function count: 3/500 Unstrip recursion depth: 1/20 Unstrip post‐expand size: 13310/5000000 bytes Lua time usage: 0.266/10.000 seconds Lua memory usage: 23537673/52428800 bytes Number of Wikibase entities loaded: 1/400 --> <!-- Transclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template) 100.00% 522.435 1 -total 76.15% 397.821 1 Template:Infobox_school 46.55% 243.170 1 Template:Infobox 26.57% 138.824 1 Template:Infobox_school/short_description 19.93% 104.131 1 Template:Lang 17.20% 89.856 1 Template:Reflist 14.65% 76.525 2 Template:Cite_web 5.98% 31.262 1 Template:Citation_needed 5.53% 28.888 52 Template:If_empty 5.22% 27.281 8 Template:Main_other --> <!-- Saved in parser cache with key enwiki:pcache:21875194:|#|:idhash:canonical and timestamp 20241203081404 and revision id 1250057310. 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