Mymensingh Zilla School

In 1846, it started as an English medium school called 'Hardinge School' at Mr. F. B. Camp's, the then Deputy Collector of the East India Company. On 3 November 1853, it started as a full-fledged English medium school near Kachari (present Laboratory School). However, it is no longer an English medium one; it follows the national curriculum of Bangladesh and the medium of instruction is Bengali. Bhagawan Chandra Bose, the father of scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose, was the first headmaster of the school.{{Cite web |url=http://www.mzs.edu.bd/history.aspx |script-title=bn:ময়মনসিংহ জিলা স্কুল সংক্ষিপ্ত ইতিহাস |website=www.mzs.edu.bd |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191020000254/http://www.mzs.edu.bd/history.aspx |archive-date=2019-10-20 |language=bn}}

It was called multilateral pilot school during the time of first Deputy Commissioner of Mymensingh, S.M.A Kajmi, by the government. The main and present school structures were built in 1912. In 1965, the school compound was designed and reformed by an American science teacher, Mr. Dril.

The school had been used as a base of the British Army during World War II. It was also used as a training camp for freedom fighters during Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. And more than 40 students sacrificed their lives, that time, fighting against the Pakistan Army.

On 3 March 1981, police fired tear-gas to subdue rioting Mymensingh Zilla School students. Sixty people were injured in the clash, which began when the students attempted to reoccupy part of their school hostel building that the government had recently given over to an adjacent primary training institute.{{cite news |title=Sylhet mob goes on rampage |newspaper=The Times of India |agency=PTI |date=4 March 1981 |quote=In another incident, some 60 people were injured during a student-police clash ... police burst tear-gas shells to quell the attacking mob of students. The clash ... was sparked off when the students of the Mymensingh Zilla School attempted to take possession of a portion of their school hostel building handed over by the government a few days back to adjacent primary training institute.}}{{Cite web |last= |first= |date= |title=History of Mymensingh Zilla School |url=http://mzs.edu.bd/history.aspx |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191020000254/http://mzs.edu.bd/history.aspx |archive-date=20 October 2019 |access-date=20 October 2019 |website=}}

Usually, aspirants of 2nd and 5th grade apply by December to sit for the admission test. Only the qualified aspirants get opportunity to be admitted to 3rd and 6th grade respectively.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}

The school provides education from the third through the tenth grade. Upon successful completion of the eighth grade, students have to choose to be in either the science or business studies stream. However, joining science stream is contingent upon marks obtained in mathematics and general science in Junior School Certificate examination. Since the ninth grade the whole student body, thus, gets separated into two groups: Science and Business Studies. Upon successful completion of the tenth grade the students are allowed to sit for the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}

Students regularly participate in different sporting events and games at different levels—local, regional, national—for which prior training and coaching are offered. Popular outdoor games include football, handball, basketball, volleyball, cricket, hockey etc. In addition to this, facilities for different indoor games like chess, table tennis, carrom, etc. are also provided.{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}

File:Former Bangladesh National Cricket Team Captian Mahmudullah with his school cricket team of Mymensingh Zilla School.jpg

Mymensingh Zilla School went to the 12th Nirman School Cricket Tournament finals in 1994 against Narayangonj High School. MZS lost by five wickets.{{cite web |url=https://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1993-94/BDESH_LOCAL/NIRMAN/MZS_RAJBARI_NIRMAN_8APR1994.html |title=Final: Mymen Singh Zilla School v Narayangonj High School at Dhaka, 13 Apr 1994 |website=ESPNcricinfo |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230820212801/https://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1993-94/BDESH_LOCAL/NIRMAN/MZS_RAJBARI_NIRMAN_8APR1994.html |archive-date=2023-08-20}}

The school has a debate team which participates in Regional and National Debate Competitions regularly with significant achievements. They have appeared in multiple National TV Debating Competitions.{{cite news |script-title=bn:সেরাদের সেরা ময়মনসিংহ জিলা স্কুল |url=https://www.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/y5iedgvher |work=Prothom Alo |date=27 January 2024 |language=bn}} It recently won the Prothom Alo-Pushti Bitorko Protijogita. Besides, individuals from the school have won national public speaking competitions and the Creative Talent Hunt Competition.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}

The school has a musical group who primarily performs Bengali Folk music and Modern Bengali music including Rabindra Sangeet and Nazrul Geeti in various occasions. The group usually plays harmonium, tabla and guitar while performing. During the school assembly before classes, they sing the national anthem.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}

Mymensingh Zilla School is one of the most successful schools in National and International Olympiads. Multiple students from the school has won various medals and honours in International Mathematical Olympiad, International Physics Olympiad, International Junior Science Olympiad, Asia Pacific Mathematical Olympiad, Asian Physics Olympiad, Iranian Geometry Olympiad, Bangladesh Mathematical Olympiad, Bangladesh Physics Olympiad, Bangladesh Olympiad in Informatics, NHSPC, Bangladesh Chemistry Olympiad and various other competitions.{{cite news |last1=Majumdar |first1=Mahbub |title=Bangladesh Beats India in Education |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/star-weekend/education/bangladesh-beats-india-education-129877 |work=The Daily Star |date=21 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240417091045/https://www.thedailystar.net/star-weekend/education/bangladesh-beats-india-education-129877 |archive-date=2024-04-17 |language=en}}{{cite news |title=Bangladesh gets 2 bronze medals in APMO |url=https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/Bangladesh-gets-2-bronze-medals-in-APMO |work=Prothom Alo |date=15 May 2014 |language=en}}{{cite news |title=I didn't think I would win a gold medal: Meet Bangladesh's first-ever Math Olympiad gold medalist |url=https://www.tbsnews.net/features/i-didnt-think-i-would-win-gold-medal-meet-bangladeshs-first-ever-math-olympiad-gold |work=The Business Standard |date=7 July 2021 |language=en}}

The school has a BNCC team which is for all students. Interested students can join the BNCC. There is also scout activities in the school. The scouts are trained by Bangladesh Scouts. BNCC and School Scouts coordinate different school programs and social works.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}

The school has a school magazine that publishes poetry, short stories, comic pieces and artworks by the students. The magazine is called Oitijjho (Bengali: ঐতিহ্য).{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}

• Abu Sayeed Chowdhury,{{cite book |last1=Khan |first1=Nurul Islam |title=Bangladesh District Gazetteers: Mymensingh |date=1978 |location=Dacca |publisher=Bangladesh Government Press |oclc=708216 |page=233}} the 2nd President of Bangladesh
• Anandamohan Bose,{{cite book |last=Banerjea |first=Surendranath |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZtkxAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA38 |title=A Nation in Making: Being the Reminiscences of Fifty Years of Public Life |date=1925 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=38 |author-link=Surendranath Banerjee}} an Indian political leader and social reformer, a president of the Indian National Congress
• Jagadish Chandra Bose, a polymath: a physicist, biologist, botanist, archaeologist, and science fiction writer
• Nurul Amin,{{cite book |last=Khan |first=Muazzam Hussain |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |publisher=Asiatic Society of Bangladesh |year=2012 |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |edition=Second |chapter=Amin, Nurul |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Amin,_Nurul}} the 8th Prime Minister of Pakistan
• Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed,{{cite news |last=Kamal |first=Mustafa |date=12 July 2008 |title=Ishtiaq: An extraordinary legal mind |newspaper=The Daily Star |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-45244 |access-date=20 March 2017}} an attorney general of Bangladesh
• Jyotirmoy Guhathakurta,{{cite book |last=Haq |first=Kaiser |year=2012 |chapter=Guhathakurta, Jyotirmoy |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Guhathakurta,_Jyotirmoy |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=Asiatic Society of Bangladesh}} an educator and humanist, martyred during the 1971 Dhaka University massacre
• M. Anwar Hossain,{{citation needed|date=March 2017}} an educator, scientist and the vice-chancellor of Jahangirnagar University
• Syed Nazrul Islam,{{cite news |script-title=bn:শহীদ নজরুল ইসলামের ৯৮তম জন্মবার্ষিকী আজ |url=https://protidinerbangladesh.com/national/25996/%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%B9%E0%A7%80%E0%A6%A6-%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%B2-%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A7%AF%E0%A7%AE%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%AE-%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B7%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%80-%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%9C |work=Protidiner Bangladesh |date=18 February 2023 |language=bn}} acting President of Bangladesh during the Bangladesh Liberation War
• Abdul Monem Khan,{{cite book |last=Salam |first=Muhammad Abdus |year=2012 |chapter=Khan, Abdul Monem |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Khan,_Abdul_Monem |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=Asiatic Society of Bangladesh}} governor of East Pakistan from 1962 to 1969
• Jamilur Reza Choudhury,{{cite news |last1=Saifullah |first1=Md |title=Jamilur Reza Choudhury at a glance |url=https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/jamilur-reza-choudhury-at-a-glance |work=Prothom Alo |date=28 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240826213940/https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/jamilur-reza-choudhury-at-a-glance |archive-date=2024-08-26 |language=en}} National Professor of Bangladesh
• Md. Hafizur Rahman, minister of food and agriculture of Pakistan (1958–1960); minister of commerce of Pakistan (1960–1962); provincial minister of finance and planning of East Pakistan (1962–1965)
• Krishna Kumar Mitra, Indian independence activist and journalist{{cite book |last=Mohanta |first=Sambaru Chandra |year=2012 |chapter=Mitra, Krishna Kumar |chapter-url=https://en.banglapedia.org/index.php/Mitra,_Krishna_Kumar |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=Asiatic Society of Bangladesh}}
• M. R. Akhtar Mukul,{{cite news |title=M R Akhtar Mukul our raconteur, our historian |url=https://archive.thedailystar.net/magazine/2010/07/01/remembrance.htm |access-date=19 November 2024 |work=The Daily Star}} an author, and presenter of Chorompotro, the Ultimate Mail, during the Bangladesh Liberation War
• Abu Zafar Obaidullah,{{cite book |last=Rahman |first=Aminur |year=2012 |chapter=Obaidullah, Abu Zafar |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Obaidullah,_Abu_Zafar |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=Asiatic Society of Bangladesh}} a poet
• Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury,{{cite book |last=Seton |first=Marie |date=2003 |title=Portrait of a Director: Satyajit Ray |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hVILvhgqN6QC&pg=PA22 |publisher=Penguin Books India |page=22 |isbn=978-0-14-302972-4}} a musician, artist, writer, and printing pioneer
• Mahmudullah,{{cite news |date=4 June 2007 |title=Riyad surprised with national call |newspaper=bdnews24.com |url=https://bdnews24.com/cricket/riyad-surprised-with-national-call |access-date=20 March 2017}}{{cite news |last1=Life |first1=Khan Mutasim Billah |title=Mahmudullah's emotional appeal to preserve Mymensingh Zilla School's cricket heritage |url=https://bdcrictime.com/mahmudullahs-emotional-appeal-to-preserve-mymensingh-zilla-schools-cricket-heritage |access-date=19 November 2024 |work=BDCricTime |language=en}} a cricketer{{cite news |script-title=bn:নায়কের নাম মাহমুদউল্লাহ |url=https://www.prothomalo.com/lifestyle/%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A7%9F%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AE-%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B9 |work=Prothom Alo |date=14 March 2015 |language=bn}}
• Ehsan Khan, architect{{cite news |script-title=bn:এহসান খানের স্থাপত্য ভুবন |url=https://www.ananda-alo.com/3846/|access-date=9 February 2025 |work=আনন্দ আলো |date=10 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231203002817/https://www.ananda-alo.com/3846/ |archive-date=3 December 2023 |language=bn}}
• Abul Kashem Fazlul Haq,{{cite news |script-title=bn:বাংলা একাডেমির নতুন সভাপতি আবুল কাসেম ফজলুল হক |url=https://bangla.bdnews24.com/bangladesh/202beea1f0fc |work=bdnews24.com |date=27 October 2024 |language=bn}} writer, essayist, translator, critic, columnist
• Baharul Alam,{{cite news |script-title=bn:আইজিপির দায়িত্ব গ্রহণ করলেন ডা. বাহারুল আলম |url=https://medivoicebd.com/article/31092/%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%BE%E0%A7%9F%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AC-%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%A3-%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A8-%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BE-%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%B2-%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%AE |work=medivoicebd.com |date=21 November 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241122154020/https://medivoicebd.com/article/31092/%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%BE%E0%A7%9F%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AC-%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%A3-%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A8-%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BE-%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%B2-%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%AE |archive-date=2024-11-22 |language=bn}} 31st inspector general of Bangladesh Police
• Anjir Liton, poet{{cite news |title=ভূত একটা ইমাজিনেশন- আনজীর লিটন |url=https://bangla.bdnews24.com/kothaykothay/article10375.bdnews |access-date=3 April 2025 |work=bdnews24.com |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250403080205/https://bangla.bdnews24.com/kothaykothay/article10375.bdnews |archive-date=3 April 2025 |language=bn|trans-title=Ghost is an Imagination - Anjir Liton}}

• Girish Chandra Sen, Brahmo Samaj missionary, the first person to translate the Quran into Bengali language.-
• Bhagawan Chandra Bose, father of Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, the first headmaster of Mymensingh Zilla School

• Vidyamoyee Govt. Girls' High School
• Government Laboratory High School, Mymensingh

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