Baghdad High School for Girls () is a

girls' school Single-sex education, also known as single-gender education, same-sex education, same-gender education, and gender-isolated education, is the practice of conducting education with male and female students attending separate classes, perhaps in se ...

in Mansour,

Baghdad Baghdad ( or ; , ) is the capital and List of largest cities of Iraq, largest city of Iraq, located along the Tigris in the central part of the country. With a population exceeding 7 million, it ranks among the List of largest cities in the A ...

Iraq Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to Iraq–Saudi Arabia border, the south, Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq border, the east, the Persian Gulf and ...

Characteristics of the school

In 2004, a reporter visiting the school said that most of the girls attending were daughters of government officials and wealthy, prominent people.Asquith, Christina.
A Day at Baghdad’s Elite Girls’ High School

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''. February 24, 2004. Retrieved on 6 May 2015. The reporter said that fewer than half of the girls at the school wore hijabs and that the school was like an Iraqi equivalent of '' Vogue'' and " Beverly Hills High 90210". She noted that 98% of pupils continue to university, mostly to study medicine, engineering, science and technology.

Notable former pupils

* Nada Shabout, art historian

References

Girls' schools in Iraq Schools in Baghdad Educational institutions established in 1925 1920s establishments in Iraq {{Iraq-school-stub