Chittagong Collegiate School [C.C.S] - Memories 4.81

Chittagong Collegiate SchoolThe Chittagong Collegiate School is a notable secondary school in Chittagong, the southern port city in Bangladesh. Established in 1836, it is one of the oldest schools in the country. The school is known for its excellence in providing secondary education and attract students from all over the country.


History

Chittagong Collegiate School BuildingChittagong Collegiate School was established as Chittagong Government School in 1836. The school was the first English medium high school in Chittagong. Initially, its classes were held in a brick building constructed during the early years of British rule at a place between the southern part of the Parade Ground and the eastern section of the Madrasah Hills, the present location of Mohsin College. The school was then shifted to a new place at the southern section of the Markot Sahib Hills. Finally, the school was relocated to its present address at Ice Factory Road, South Nalapara, near the Chittagong Railway Station in 1886, and was given the name of Chittagong Collegiate School. Until the first decade of the twentieth century, the school was popularly known as the Entrance School.


Facilities
The school has a dormitory for the residential students and has a residential area for the teachers. The school campus is considered to be one of the largest campuses in Bangladesh. It has a playground which is one of the largest among Bangladeshi schools. The school has the tradition of obtaining the best results in Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination.

The school offers its student the facility to obtain vocational education as well as academic qualification. It has one of the largest vocational education workshop in the country.

The school is also undertaking the development of its sports facilities which includes a swimming pool within the school campus.

The school had the highest number students who achieved GPA 5 in 2005, 2006 and in 2007 and made a hattrick for scoring highest number of GPA 5 for 3 years in a row.

The school offers teaching in 2 shifts over 6 days a week to its over 2000 students in its 21 spacious classrooms. The school also has a large and resourceful library, a computer lab, 2 science labs, 3 halls and one auditorium.

The School achieved country's Best School Award in 1992.


Chittagong Collegiate School
Famous alumni

Muhammad Yunus at Chittagong Collegiate School, while visiting the school in 2003.Over the years, some of the finest talents of this country have graduated from this historic school.Some of them are considered as the living legends of this country. A very short list of those extraordinary collegiatians are given below-

Dr.Muhammad Yunus: Nobel peace prize winner in 2006 for his outstanding contribution on poverty alleviation & exploitation of the ultra poor, Nobel laureate, Founder of Grameen Bank and the Microcredit theory of Economics.
Dr.Abdullah Al Moti Sarfuddin :Famous Scientist.
Dr.Humayun Ahmed: Popular novelist, film director, teacher.
Dr.Muhammed Zafar Iqbal: Popular science-fiction novelist, columnist, computer scientist, educator.
Dr.Jamal Nazrul Islam: Eminent scientist and professor of physics and mathematics in Chittagong University.
Dr. Ragib Hasan: scientist
Abul Hayat: Famous actor with frequent appearance in the television media.
Nabinchandra Sen: Poet.


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