City Montessori School (CMS) is a co-educational English medium private school that offers education from Pre-school up to K-12 (Grade 12) level in Lucknow, India. The school was founded in 1959 by Dr. Bharti Gandhi and Dr. Jagdish Gandhi. It is mentioned as world's largest school by Guinness Book of World Records which reported 55,547 students as of 2019. In 2014, CMS society was accredited with the United Nations Department of Public Information as affiliated NGO. Background Dr. Jagdish Gandhi and his wife Dr. Bharti Gandhi founded the City Montessori School with just 5 children in 1959 in a room at their home. This first campus is now known as the Station Road Branch. Each student is placed in one of the four houses which are Love, Hope, Unity and Peace with the colours Green, Red, Yellow and Blue representing each house respectively. In 2002 CMS was awarded the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education. The school has also received the 'Hope of Humanity' Award from the Buddhist spiritual leader, Dalai Lama. Campuses The campuses of the school are spread all over the city of Lucknow. The campuses include: Aliganj Campus I Aliganj Campus II Anand Nagar Campus Asharfabad Campus Ayodhya Road Campus Chowk Campus Gomti Nagar Campus I Gomti Nagar Campus II Indira Nagar Campus Jopling Road Campus Kanpur Road (LDA Colony) Campus Mahanagar Campus Rajajipuram Campus I Rajajipuram Campus II Rajajipuram Campus III Rajendra Nagar Campus I Rajendra Nagar Campus II RDSO Campus Golf City Campus Station Road Campus United world campus Engagements Model United Nations, the CMSMUN, is organised by the school. Children of the school have appealed to the world judiciary at International Conference of the Chief Justices of the World. Various campuses conduct International events annually, like the IYMC, ITMO, Reflections, Confluence, Inter-Faith Harmony Week etc. Student Quality Circles The idea of SQCs (Students' Quality Circles) was presented by City Montessori School (CMS) Lucknow India at a conference in Hong Kong in October 1994. It was developed and mentored by two engineers of Indian Railways PC, Bihari and Swami Das, in association with Principal Dr. Kamran of CMS Lucknow India. They were inspired and facilitated by Jagdish Gandhi, who founded CMS after his visit to Japan, where he learned about Kaizen. CMS has continued to conduct international conventions on student quality circles every two years. After seeing its utility, educators from many countries started such circles.