Barisal Zilla School facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Barisal Zilla Schoolবরিশাল জিলা স্কুল |
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| Barisal Zilla School West Building
"পড় তোমার প্রভুর নামে"
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| Sadar Road Barisal 8200, Bangladesh |
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| Coordinates | 22°41′53″N 90°22′08″E / 22.698°N 90.369°E |
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| Type | Government School |
| Established | 23 December 1829 |
| School board | Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Barisal |
| Grades | Class III-X |
| Gender | Boys Only |
| Enrollment | 2500+ |
| Language | Bengali |
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| Nickname | BZS |
| Yearbook | Sobuj Pata |
| Special project | Connecting classrooms under British Council |
Barisal Zilla School is a boys school located in Barisal, Bangladesh. It is one of the oldest and top ranked high schools in the country and the first high school in Barisal Division.
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.
Notable alumni
Barisal Zilla School produced many leading local reformers, politicians, statesmen, educationists, philosophers, poets-writers, and sportsmen. Those notable persons include:
- Sher-e-Bangla A. K. Fazlul Huq, Bengali nationalist and statesman
- Abdul Jabbar Khan, former speaker
- Abdur Rahman Biswas, former president of Bangladesh
- Altaf Mahmud, music composer
- Sardar Fazlul Karim, scholar, academic, philosopher and essayist
- Buddhadeb Guha, writer
- Lieutenant General Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury, ex-chief of Army staff
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