Pabna Government Girls High School () is one of the oldest secondary schools in
Pabna
Pabna () is a city of Pabna District, Bangladesh and the administrative capital of the eponymous Pabna District. It is on the north bank of the Padma River and has a population of about .
Etymology
* According to the historian Radharaman Saha ...
District,
Bangladesh
Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eighth-most populous country in the world and among the List of countries and dependencies by ...
. The school provides education from class Three to class Ten (SSC). It has two shifts - morning and day. The morning shift starts from 7.30 am and day shift from 12.30 pm. It is a girls school but has both male and female teachers. The school has one head master and two separate group of teachers for morning and day shift. It has a playground, three buildings and a mosque. There are individual laboratories for physics, chemistry, biology, and computer.
History
Pabna Government Girls' High School was established in 1883. It became a High School in 1925 located in a two storied building in downtown Pabna.
Pabna Government Girls' High School did not have a headmaster in 2010, one of 30 schools without a headmaster in
Rajshahi Division
Rajshahi Division () is one of the eight first-level administrative divisions of Bangladesh. It has an area of and a population at the 2022 Census of 20,353,119. Rajshahi Division consists of 8 districts, 70 upazilas (the next lower administrat ...
.
In 2011, Pabna Government Girls' High School was one of 20 best scoring schools in JSC examinations under
Rajshahi Education Board. It was one of five schools in Pabna District to have a 100 percent pass rate on the SSC examination in 2012.
Location
The school is located in the center of Pabna town at
Dilalpur at .
Notable alumni and faculty
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Suchitra Sen
Suchitra Sen, widely known as the Mahanayika (), was an Indian actress who worked in Cinema of West Bengal, Bengali and Hindi cinema. The movies in which she was paired opposite actor Uttam Kumar became classics in the history of Cinema of Wes ...
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Jannatul Ferdous
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Rawshan Ara
References
Girls' schools in Bangladesh
High schools in Bangladesh
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