Cumilla Zilla School

Cumilla Zilla School (কুমিল্লা জিলা স্কুল))is one of the oldest and prestigi0us educational institutes at cumilla in Bangladesh. It is the best school of Bangladesh. It has been producing a good number of students to lead the future of Bangladesh. This school was established in 1837. It has a glorious history. 

Cumilla Zilla school, in the center of Cumilla city, was established in 20 July 1837 by an Englishman  Henry George Leicester. It was set up by the government of British India for teaching English literature and science and named Cumilla Zilla School. In the beginning, there was only 37 students. From 1857, the school was running under Kolkata University. In the 1850s, the school academic building was expanded and more facilities were created to make it a full-fledged high school. The school is situated on 5.69 acres of land. Initially, the school conducted only one shift. From 1991 two shifts were introduced: morning and day. Presently all the classes from 5 to 10 are running. There are six sections in each of the classes: ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, and ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’ for class six to eight where ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’ are in morning shift and day shift. There are two sections in nine and ten; they are 'A' and 'B'.

There are 60 students in each of the sections. For class nine and ten students are distributed into four sections following the same structure with a larger number of students in a class. Almost 2,000 students are studying in the school with 53 teachers.

There are four buildings, a Shaheed Minar and a hostel for the students. There is a library and a common room also. The school playground is used for numerous sports.