Koodali Higher Secondary School is situated in

Koodali Koodali is a census town and grama panchayat in Thalassery taluk of Kannur district in Kerala state, India. Koodali is located east of Kannur city on Kannur-Mattanur road. Educational institutions * Koodali Higher Secondary School (establi ...

Kannur district Kannur () is one of the 14 Districts of Kerala, districts along the west coast in the state of Kerala, India. The city of Kannur is the district headquarters and gives the district its name. The old name, Cannanore, is the anglicized form of th ...

Kerala Kerala ( , ) is a States and union territories of India, state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile ...

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, about 15 km south of

Kannur Kannur (), formerly known in English as Cannanore, is a city and Municipal corporation (India), municipal corporation in the state of Kerala, India. It is the administrative headquarters of the Kannur district and situated north of the maj ...

town. More than 3000 students study in the school, from standard 5 through to standard 12. The school was first established in 1946. The school was set up by Kunhaman Gurukkal of Poothatta Thiyyar tharawad, later during the British raj, illegally occupied by

Karanavar Karanavar or Karanavan or Karanava, parsimoniously speaking, was used as a title or to denote the male head in Malayali, Tulu and Coorg society. Karnavar is also a title for some aristocratic Nair families in and around Budhanur, Chenganoor, ...

of Koodali Tarawad, Mr K T Kunhikrishnan Nambiar. Many great scholars studied and were taught in this school including the famous

Malayali The Malayali people (; also spelt Malayalee and sometimes known by the demonym Keralite) are a Dravidian ethnolinguistic group originating from the present-day state of Kerala and Union Territory of Lakshadweep in India, occupying its south ...

poet

P.Kunhiraman Nair Panayanthitta Kunhiraman Nair (4 October 1905 – 27 May 1978), also known as Mahakavi P, is an Indian writer of Malayalam literature. He was known for his romantic poems which detailed the natural beauty of his home state of Kerala in South Ind ...

. This school received the "Best school in Kerala" award in 1982.

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