PETRA 1 SCHOOL HISTORY

Everything in this world has its own process. Like a baby, you have a process to grow. So does our school, it has its own process to become this success. It started in 1951, Petra's firs school located at Embong Wungu Street. The building belonged to a Dutch Christian School. Petra 1 tried to grow and spread the wing in education world in early 1990's, Petra 1 Christian Senior High School was relocated to H.R. Mohammad street aside Petra 1 Christian Junior High School. In 2004, Petra 1 Christian Senior High School moved to the building in Lingkar Dalam Barat Perum Graha Famili across the Supermall Pakuwon Indah and Pakuwon Trade Center.

Petra 1 Christian Senior High School has approximately 1100 students with astounding achieveements every year. With an "A" accrediatation, we get many links to famous universities, both local and international university. The local universities are Petra Christian University, Univesity of Surabaya, Airlangga University, Untar and UGM. The international universities are NTU, SMU, RMIT, Monash University, and Trinity College Australia.

The private school also has adequate facilities to support studens' activities. There are Indoor and Outdoor sport field, Library, Music Room, ICT, Laboratory, and Praying Room. We also have a huge auditorium that we usuaily use for Graduation Ceremony, Christmas Eve and other big events that is heid by this school.

(Sumber: Back to 17 Again, Yearbook of Petra 1 2008-2011)