Ishwarganj Bisweswari Government Pilot High School | |
Location: | Ishwarganj, Mymensingh, Bangladesh |
Country: | Bangladesh |
Coordinates: | 24.6852°N 90.5954°W |
Founder: | Kishore Roy Chowdhury[1] |
District: | Mymenensingh |
Grades: | 6 to 10 |
Principal: | Md. Hasim Uddin |
Enrollment: | 1,500 |
Faculty: | 25 |
Medium Of Language: | Bengali |
Hours In Day: | 10 hours: Morning shift (8.00am–1.00pm) and day shift (1.30pm–5.30pm) |
Campus Size: | 3 acres |
Newspaper: | Not Yet |
Website: | [2] |
Ishwarganj Bisweswari Government Pilot High School (Bengali: ঈশ্বরগঞ্জ বিশ্বেশ্বরী সরকারী পাইলট উচ্চ বিদ্যালয়)[3] is a secondary school in Ishwarganj Upazila, Mymensingh District, Bangladesh.[4] It was founded in 1916[5] by Kishore Roy Chowdhury. There are approximately 2,500 students currently enrolled.
Generally, admission is permitted in class six once a year. There is no eligibility criteria to sit the admission test. Students who perform well in the test are usually admitted.
The school has two main academic buildings. One has four stories and the other has two stories. It has a playground where students can play and enjoy games in the afternoon. From the school, one can see the small river Kanchamatia. On the other side of the school, there is a big pond-like lake, which local people call Muktijoddha Pukur.
The school has many educational facilities, including a science laboratory, a workshop, a computer lab, and a library. Physics, chemistry, and biology lessons are normally conducted in the science laboratory. The physics lab contains different kinds of scientific equipment, including a simple pendulum, an internal combustion engine model, a calorimeter, etc., and contains the equipment required for a secondary science education. Different kinds of chemicals are also available here. The biology lab also has human skeletons, different kinds of anesthetics, different specimens of animals and plants reserved with chloroform. The average GPA 5 holders from every academic batch is about 100.
Students attend a morning assembly everyday where physical exercise is performed, especially in the winter season. An annual sports day is dedicated every year, where different traditional games and music are performed. Some students attend to the Science Olympiad and the Mathematical Olympiad and consequently win prizes and recognition. There is a good tradition of arranging debate competitions among students and also at the interschool level.