SAINIK SCHOOL BIJAPUR (SSBJ) began functioning in temporary shelters on September 16, 1963. Thirteenth in the series of Sainik schools set up across the country in the sixties, SSBJ was cosseted in a small corner of Vijaya College in Bijapur.

The management of Vijaya College lent the school a section of its building where the morning assembly, the library and the classrooms were housed.

The school moved to its present permanent 406-acre campus on Athani Road Bijapur in the month of November 1966. Dr. Zakir Hussain, Vice President of India, declared the school campus formally open on December 17,1966, offering the secondary school leaving certificate at completion of course, SSBJ now offers the CBSE syllabus of study.

Sainik School Scheme was launched in 1961 for providing a career in the Armed Forces to the wards of a common man.

Sainik Schools are residential Schools for boys imparting quality education with military bias. These are affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi. The Schools are All India Schools with common curriculum, system of selections and examinations.The aim of Sainik Schools is to prepare boys academically, physically and mentally for entry into the National Defence Academy, Khadakvasla (Pune) and other walks of life.