Arambagh high School is one of the oldest schools in Arambagh,[Hooghly] India

India

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, teaching grades 1 to 12 under the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education

West Bengal Board of Secondary Education

The West Bengal Board of Secondary Education is the West Bengal state government administered autonomous examining authority for the Standard 10 examination of West Bengal, India. The examination for the 10th standard is called the Madhyamik Pariksha or secondary examination...

 and the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education

West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education

West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education is the West Bengal state government administered autonomous examining authority for the Standard 12 examination of West Bengal, India...

. The school is establish in 1861. On December 22, 1945 This school was permanently recognized and aided by the Registrar of Calcutta University. It is situated on the bank of the Darakeswar river.

History

In 1861 the school was established by the British Government for teaching English. On March 1, 1945 the school came under the Salary Deficit Scheme (fully aided). On December 22 in 1945 This school was permanently recognized and aided by the Registrar of Calcutta University. It was upgraded to a Higher Secondary School with Arts, Science and Commerce streams on May 7, 1959 by the D.P.I. West Bengal. NCC was introduced in the school in 1967. The West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education had imparted the school in the Higher Secondary courses (+2) in all the general stream courses (science, arts and commerce) on August 14, 1984.

Higher Secondary and Secondary

Higher Secondary and Secondary sections are run by the same administrator and form the main part of the High School. The secondary section starts from class 5 and offers studies up to class 10. The admission in class 5 is based on the performance in the admission test taken by the school authority. The medium of instruction for this section is Bengali and offers English as second language.
Although there is no system of admission tests for the Higher Secondary section, admission to class 11 is based on marks or grades or percentage obtained in the secondary(or equivalent) examination. Students from the other schools gets opportunity for their Higher Secondary studies in this school. This school offers three traditional branches of Higher Secondary studies which are Arts, Science and Commerce.

Primary

This section runs at the different campus opposite of this campus but is controlled by same authority. This section offers primary education from class 1 to 4 under the affiliation of West Bengal Board of Primary Education.

Campus

The area of the school is approximately 5000 square metres (5,980 sq yd), and the building area of the school is approximately 2600 square metres (3,109.6 sq yd). It has huge playground in front of the school and open space.

Faculty

This is the four storage buildings school with 36 classrooms.

1. 5 laboratories
2. Huge Library
3. Play Ground
4. Facilities for NCC
5. Vocational Courses
6. Vigyan Bhaban
7. Computer Education centre