St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of  The Loyola School Society , was born in 1491, as the last child of a large Basque family of Spain. The name Loyola came from the ancestral castle that was the family heritage of St. Ignatius. According to the traditions of his family, Ignatius was trained to arms and to the etiquette of court life. He enlisted himself in the border wars with France and was badly wounded in the battle. As he lay convalescing at Loyola, he read the Gospel narratives and the lives of saints and trappings of power and embracing a life of poverty, sacrifice and service after the example of his saintly mentors. He began this new life at the age of 31. He spent a year of sever penance and intense prayer in a solitary cave on the banks of the river Cardoner near the town Manresa.

He recorded his experiences in a book called “The spiritual Exercises”, which became the soul and centre, the rule and character of every Jesuit who came after. Reflecting on the crisis in the Church of his time, he felt that the need of the hour was for learned and holy priests, free of greed and ambition and ready to serve the poor and to give a witness to the love of Christ for men. To achieve this objective, he set himself in right earnest to study from grammar school to college and university in the various Spanish centres of learning and finally took his Master’s Degree from the Sorbonne University, Paris. At the same time, he won over a group of brilliant and like-minded university men (one of whom was St. Francis Xavier), moulded them by the Spiritual Exercises and welded them into a religious fratemity which popularly came to be known in the course of time.

The Loyola Public School is a private catholic primary and secondary school located in the village of  Nallapadu outside Guntur in the state of Andhra pradesh, India. Established by The Loyola School Society, the school follows the ICSE curriculum till class 10 and the ISC for class 11 and 12. The school's motto is "Born for Greater Things".