Ghilamara Town High School was established in 1982 in

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. It has a 7560 sq. feet Assam type building. Initially there was a ME school which was established in 1979. With the help of the ME school, the

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was established in the heart of Ghilamara in

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. As per government of Assam vide order no-EPG 567/01/115 dated 16 November 1991 Ghilamara Town High School was provincialized on 19 November 1991 and amalgamated with Ghilamara Town ME School on 1 August 2000. In three consecutive years 100% of the students passed the

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Examination, for which the government of Assam recognized Ghilamara Town High School as the "Best distinguish performance school" of Assam. In 2011 Ghilamara Town High School received a cheque for Rs. 5,00,000/ (Rupees five lakhs) as a distinguished performance school grant for infrastructure development of the school.

Land

* Total 18 Bigha land * School building 11 Bigha * Play ground 7 Bigha

Staff

26 high school teachers, 9 HS teachers, 4 office assistants, more than 750 students

Facilities

DNA Club, Computer laboratory, library and hostel. There are laboratories for Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Computing.

Computer lab

The Computer lab of the school consists of 10 IBM PCs LAN connected with UPS. The computers have Windows XP operating system and all other language packages which are necessary for the syllabus prescribed by the SEBA and AHSEC.

Library

The library was established in memory of Rantu Konch and Palash Chetia, two students who died in an accident while taking part in the marathon competition of the annual sports of 2005. The library has 1651 numbers of book including story, novel, biography, travelogue, essays etc.

Blog

Official school blog

References

*https://web.archive.org/web/20130408052440/http://gthss.org/ Official school website {{coord, 27, 19, 6, N, 94, 24, 51, E, region:IN-AS_type:edu_source:kolossus-nowiki, display=title High schools and secondary schools in Assam Lakhimpur district Educational institutions established in 1982 1982 establishments in Assam Schools in Ghilamara