St Cecilia's Convent Secondary School (SCCSS), (SMK Konven St. Cecilia), is a secondary school in

Sandakan Sandakan () formerly known at various times as Elopura, is the capital of the Sandakan District in Sabah, Malaysia. It is the second largest city in Sabah after Kota Kinabalu. It is located on the Sandakan Peninsula and east coast of the sta ...

Sabah Sabah () is a States and federal territories of Malaysia, state of Malaysia located in northern Borneo, in the region of East Malaysia. Sabah has land borders with the Malaysian state of Sarawak to the southwest and Indonesia's North Kalima ...

, Malaysia. Its

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code is XFE2037. Located within the newly formed

Roman Catholic Diocese of Sandakan The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sandakan (''Dioecesis Sandakaanus''; ''Keuskupan Sandakan'': ''山打根教区'') is located in Sabah, at East Malaysia. It is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Kota Kinabalu. The diocese is subdivided into ...

, SCCSS is situated at from

. Nearby schools are SM St. Mary's (boys secondary school), SK St. Mary Town, SR St. Mary's Convent, SK St. Mary and SMJK Tiong Hua. It is also near to the Duchess of Kent General Hospital and the local Polyclinic. Students of St Cecilia's are known as "Cecilians". It is one of the 30 Convent secondary schools in Malaysia.

History

St Cecilia's was founded in 1963 as a primary school under Rev Mother St. Leonard. It was one of a number of schools in Sabah staffed by the

Sisters of the Little Company of Mary The Little Company of Mary, also known as the Blue Sisters, is a Catholic Church, Catholic religious institute of women dedicated to caring for the suffering, the sick, and the dying. The order was founded in 1877 in Nottingham, England by Mary Pot ...

, also known as the "Blue Sisters". In 1966 it became the first girls' secondary school in Sandakan. The primary school was closed and its students transferred to SR St. Mary's Convent, one of St Cecilia's present-day feeder schools.School History
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School Song

References

External links

School Website
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