Schools

Armanitola Government High School is a boys’ school in Armanitola, in the old part of Dhaka. It was set up in 1904 by the British government as an experimental school for the teacher training college of East Bengal, which gave it an unusual start among Dhaka’s schools. The school covers primary and secondary levels and…

Dhaka Collegiate School at 1 Loyal Street, Sadarghat, was founded on 21 June 1835. It was the first government high school the British set up in Bengal, created to teach English literature and science. Khwaja Abdul Ghani, later the Nawab of Dhaka, was in the first batch of students, and scientists Jagdish Chandra Bose and…