Royal Preparatory School (also known as ''Royal Primary School'' or ''Royal Junior School'') was a preparatory school in

Colombo Colombo, ( ; , ; , ), is the executive and judicial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka by population. The Colombo metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of 5.6 million, and 752,993 within the municipal limits. It is the ...

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(now

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). Its grounds and buildings now form the primary school of the

Royal College Colombo Royal College, Colombo also known as; Royal Colombo, Colombo Royal College or Colombo Royal) is a boys' school located in Cinnamon Gardens, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Started by Joseph Marsh in 1835, it was established as the Colombo Academy by Si ...

History

It was established in 1933 as a preparatory school to prepare students to the

which was situated next to it (until the 1960s there was an entrance exam for its students). In 1944 it was moved to the ''Glendale Bungalow'' in

Bandarawela Bandarawela (Sinhala language, Sinhala: බණ්ඩාරවෙල, pronounced ; ) is the second largest town in the Badulla District which is away from Badulla. Bandarawela is away from Colombo and about away from Kandy, the two largest cit ...

, where it remained until 1948. From 1966 to 1969, Royal Primary School Hall was built specially designed for local drama and music which required an open air type auditorium in accordance with

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. On 2 March 1972, Ceylon became a republic when the new Republican Constitution was passed by the Parliament that met at the Royal Primary School Hall. The school was augmented with Royal College Colombo in December 1977, becoming the Primary School of Royal College Colombo which exists to this day. The school was a government administered school with its own

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; the post still exists today as the post of head master/mistress of the Primary School staffed by a Deputy Principal of Royal College Colombo.

Notable alumni

Other schools

In 1948, the Bandarawela Senior School (current Bandarawela Central College) was established in the premises used by the school in

during World War II after it moved back to Colombo that year. After the war then Minister of Education Major E. A. Nugawela open the Government Senior School (current Thurstan College) in 1950 at Thurstan Road; which was created to "accommodate the overflow of students Royal Primary who could not gain admission to Royal College". 112 students who could not gain admission to Royal College Colombo along with 26 other students were enrolled at the new Senior Government School. In 1952 Greenlands College (current

Isipathana College Isipathana College(Sinhala language, Sinhala: ඉසිපතන විද්‍යාලය) previously known as Greenlands College. Isipathana College is a National school (Sri Lanka), national school for boys in Colombo, Western Province, Sri ...

) at Greenlands Road was established with partial intake of students from Royal Preparatory School.About Isipathana College
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{{coord missing, Sri Lanka Royal College, Colombo Educational institutions established in 1933 Defunct schools in Sri Lanka 1933 establishments in Ceylon