Sekolah Kebangsaan St Mark, Perai

Sekolah Kebangsaan St Mark, Perai
© St Mark School

Sekolah Kebangsaan St Mark (GPS: 5.38645, 100.38067) is a primary school in Perai, on the Penang Mainland. Often called St Marks, the school is at Lorong 3 in Perai Utama, near the foot of the Prai River Bridge, and next to Giant Hypermarket Prima Prai. Its pupils are mostly Tamils from the surrounding villages, such as Kampung Dock and Kampung Selut, whose fathers work in the nearby wharves and dockyards of Prai.

St Mark Primary School was founded as an Anglican mission school. It is not known when the school was established, as mission schools were already in existence in Prai as early as 1882. The earliest mention of St Marks appeared in 1936. At that time, it was known as the St Anne School, Prai. The school building was located near the Prai locomotive shed. The headmaster was the late G. Sandoaham, who served until his retirement in 1946, after which the administration of the school passed to the Church of England Mission, which appointed Mr Tan Ah Hung as headmaster.

St Mark School Chronology
© St Mark School

Under Mr Tan's administration, the school relocated to an attap shed near the Prai Main Road. It had 200 pupils who were mostly the children of the railway employees. Mr Tan also sought government assistance to negotiate with the railway authorities in giving the school a piece of railway land, and on this plot the present school building was erected.

In 1951, a new St Marks Prai School building was completed. That same year the school received government assistance. By then its pupils had increased to 400, a number which would continue to rise rapidly, reaching 600 by 1955. During that time, the school only had six classrooms, each accommodating as many as 192 pupils.

In 2006, an hour-long downpour caused flooding at St Mark School. This led to a plan to rebuild the school which was conveyed to the director of land and drainage. A committee rallied the assistance of various bodies and eventually a new school building was completed.

Sekolah Kebangsaan St Mark on Google Street View

Contact

Sekolah Kebangsaan St Mark
Lorong 3 Perai
13600 Perai, Penang
Phone: +60 4 390 2179

Location of Sekolah Kebangsaan St Mark on map

Acknowledgement

Penang Travel Tips conveys thanks to Mr K. Praba for assistance in assembling the information on the history of the school.

List of Schools in Penang and Schools in Malaysia

Private Guided Tours of Penang

If you are seeking private guided tours of Penang, message Penang Tour Guides at penangtourguides@gmail.com and enquire with them.

 Buy, rent or sell properties in Penang

Do you have a property for sale or to rent out? Are you looking to buy or rent a property? Get in touch with me. WhatsApp me (Timothy Tye) at 012 429 9844, and I will assign one of my property agents to serve you. I will choose the agent for you, according to your property needs. So when you message me, provide me some details of what you need, whether to sell, to buy, to rent or to rent out, and what type of property, is it condo, apartment, house, shop, office or land.

 Latest updates on Penang Travel Tips

Map of Roads in Penang

Looking for information on Penang? Use this Map of Roads in Penang to zoom in on information about Penang, brought to you road by road.

About this website

Dear visitor, thank you so much for reading this page. My name is Timothy Tye and my hobby is to find out about places, write about them and share the information with you on this website. I have been writing this site since 5 January 2003. Originally (from 2003 until 2009, the site was called AsiaExplorers. I changed the name to Penang Travel Tips in 2009, even though I describe more than just Penang but everywhere I go (I often need to tell people that "Penang Travel Tips" is not just information about Penang, but information written in Penang), especially places in Malaysia and Singapore, and in all the years since 2003, I have described over 20,000 places.

While I try my best to provide you information as accurate as I can get it to be, I do apologize for any errors and for outdated information which I am unaware. Nevertheless, I hope that what I have described here will be useful to you.