Ghss, Okkiyam Thuraipakkam
| School Name | Ghss, Okkiyam Thuraipakkam |
| Address | Thoraipakkam, Ward2, St.Thomas Mount(Rural), Chengalpattu, Tamilnadu |
| Location | Thoraipakkam |
| City | Chengalpattu |
| District | Chengalpattu |
| State | Tamilnadu |
| Pincode | 600097 |
| Category | Higher Secondary School |
| Block | St.Thomas Mount(Rural) |
Ghss, Okkiyam Thuraipakkam is located in Thoraipakkam, Ward2, St.Thomas Mount(Rural), Chengalpattu, Tamilnadu and was established in year 1969. The school is a Co-educational and is located in Rural area. This is a Higher Secondary school and is currently operational. It's affiliated with State Board for class-X & class-XII exams. The school is managed by Department of Education. It comes under Sholinganallur assembly constituency. The first mode of communication is English in the school but Tamil is also spoken during classes.
| Class VI to VIII | 718 Students |
| Class IX to XII | 1348 Students |
| Total Students | 2066 Students |
| Total Teachers | 61 Teachers |
| Student-Teacher Ratio | 34:1 |
| Student-Classroom Ratio | 40:1 |
This school teaches around two thousand one hundred students who are taught by 61 teachers, which makes the student-teacher ratio of 34 students per teacher. 59 teachers are appointed on Regular basis and rest two are appointed on Part-time basis. Nine teachers are Male and remaining 52 are Female. In terms of Academic qualification one teacher is Below Graduate, eight are Graduate and rest 52 are Post Graduate. Five teachers are trained in Computer. The student classroom ratio is 40:1, means on an average forty students sit in a classroom which is good. There are 718 students in class VI to VIII and 1348 students in class IX to XII.
The school is in a Govt. building and it has pucca boundary walls. The school has total fifty two clasrooms and five other rooms. The school has internet facility for students. The school has eleven laptops, twenty two desktops, one tablet, sixteen scanners, one LED and one webcam in its premises. There is reading corner, library and book bank for students. There are eighteen boys toilets, thirty two girls toilets and two cwsn toilets for students. The school has both hand wash facility and drinking water facility for people.