Adamjee Cantonment Public School

23°47′38″N 90°23′36″E / 23.7940°N 90.3932°E / 23.7940; 90.3932InformationSchool typePrimary and SecondaryMottoDiscipline, Education and CharacterEstablished1960School boardBoard of Intermediate and Secondary Education, DhakaAuthorityBangladesh ArmyChairmanBrigadier General M Imran Hamid, afwc, pscPrincipalLt Colonel Md Habibur Rahman SGP, PPM, afwc, psc, Inf^[1]GenderMaleNicknameACPSWebsitewww.acps.edu.bd

Adamjee Cantonment Public School (Bengali: আদমজী ক্যান্টনমেন্ট পাবলিক স্কুল) is a boys school in Dhaka Cantonment, Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is managed by the Bangladesh Army.^[2][3]

History

Adamjee Cantonment Public School was established in 1960. At that time, it followed the curriculum of British Public School and offered education in only six classes, from class four to nine. Mr. Dolman, a British educationist, was the first principle of the school. Subsequently, with further expansion of the institution, it was converted into a college and was named as Adamjee Cantonment College. In 1995, the school section was totally bifurcated and shifted to its present location and its original name "Adamjee Cantonment Public School" was reinstated.^[4]

Location and infrastructure

The school is located in the heart of Dhaka Cantonment, on 5.00 acres of land. The school is housed in two buildings: six storied and five storied.^[4]

Academics

At present it is a two-shift school with about 7,500 students. The Day shift which was discontinued, has been reintroduced from 2013. This school consists of Bangla and English Version.^[4]

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