Barisal Zilla School
Barisal Zilla School (in short BZS) is a boys school located in Barisal, Bangladesh. It is the first high school in Barisal Division.[2] It is a public educational institution located at Sadar Road. The school has a long history. It was founded by an Englishman, N. W. Garret, on 23 December 1829 with only 8 students. Now it has more than two thousand students. The school offers grades from class III to class X. It has two shifts, morning and day. The morning shift starts at 7:00 am and the day shift starts at 12:00 pm.
| Barisal Zilla School বরিশাল জিলা স্কুল | |
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| Location | |
Sadar Road Barisal 8200 | |
| Coordinates | 22.698°N 90.369°E |
| Information | |
| Type | Public school |
| Motto | পড় তোমার প্রভুর নামে |
| Established | 23 December 1829 |
| School board | Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Barisal |
| Headmaster | Sabina Yeasmin[1] |
| Faculty | 54 |
| Grades | Class III-X |
| Gender | Boys only |
| Enrollment | 2500+ |
| Language | Bengali |
| Color(s) | |
| Yearbook | Sobuj Pata |
| Special project | Connecting classrooms under British Council |
Beside the school playground, Barisal Zilla School owns famous ground called Poreshsagor (পরেশ সাগর). The school celebrated its 175th anniversary on 9–10 December 2005.
Notable alumni
- Sher-e-Bangla A. K. Fazlul Huq, Bengali nationalist and statesman
- Abdul Jabbar Khan, former speaker
- Abdur Rahman Biswas, former (11th) president of Bangladesh
- Altaf Mahmud, music composer
- Sardar Fazlul Karim, scholar, academic, philosopher and essayist
- Buddhadeb Guha, writer
- Golam Mustafa, Ekushey Padak and National Film Award winning actor
- Lieutenant General Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury, ex-chief of Army staff
- Tapan Raychaudhuri, historian
- Mithun Chakraborty, Film Actor, Former Member of Parliament Rajya Sabha
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See also
References
- "BARISAL ZILLA SCHOOL". www.barisalboard.gov.bd. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
- "Barisal Zilla School". Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education, Barisal.
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