Barishal Zilla School

Barisal Zilla School বরিশাল জিলা স্কুল
Location
Sadar Road Barisal 8200 Bangladesh
Coordinates	22.698°N 90.369°E / 22.698; 90.369
Information
Type	Public school
Motto	পড় তোমার প্রভুর নামে
Established	23 December 1829 (1829-12-23)
School board	Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Barisal
Headmaster	Bishwanath Saha
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

Barisal Zilla School (popularly known as 'BZS') is a public educational institution located in Barisal, Bangladesh. It's a boys school and the first high school in Barisal Division and second oldest school in Bangladesh. 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.

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 & statesman
• Abdul Jabbar Khan, former speaker
• Abdur Rahman Biswas, former (11th) president of Bangladesh
• Altaf Mahmud, legendary music composer
• Sardar Fazlul Karim, scholar, academic, philosopher and essayist
• Buddhadeb Guha, writer
• Golam Mustafa, Ekushey Padak & National Film Award winning actor
• Lieutenant General Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury, former chief of Army staff of Bangladesh
• Tapan Raychaudhuri, historian, Padma Bhushan awardee
• Promode Dasgupta, Communist leader
• Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury, Bir Bikrom
• Hafizuddin Ahmed, Bir Bikrom

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See also

• List of Zilla Schools of Bangladesh

References

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