Puri Zilla School
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|name = Puri Zila School
|colours = Blue and white
|founded = {{start date and age|1853}}
|city = {{flagicon|IND}} Puri, Odisha, India
|coordinates={{Coord|19|48|15.81|N|85|50|4.83|E|type:edu_region:IN-OR|display=inline,title}}
|students = 1500
|faculty = 45
|}}
Puri Zila School is a government high school{{cite book|author=Bihar and Orissa (India). Legislature. Legislative Council|title=Bihar and Orissa Legislative Council Proceedings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AEEgAQAAIAAJ|year=1934|publisher=Superintendent, Government Printing}}{{cite book|author=Orissa (India).|title=The Orissa Gazette|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8y8TrID9-QUC|date=April 1964}} and one of the oldest school in Odisha, India. It was established in 1853 in the holy city of Puri, located in Kundheibenta Sahi. The school moved to another building which later converted to Samanta Chandra Sekhara College, Puri. Puri Zila School moved to its current location on Station Road in 1958.
It imparts teaching in humanities, social sciences, physical sciences etc. The school has indoor and outdoor games and sports facilities. Other societies and activities are NCC, Red Cross, Scouts and Guides.
Noted alumni
- Nirmal Kumar Bose, anthropologist{{cite book|author=Tulika Sen|title=Nirmal Kumar Bose: Life, Works, and Vision|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rByAAAAAMAAJ|year=2003|publisher=Asiatic Society|isbn=978-81-7236-138-9}}
- Gopabandhu Das, Freedom Fighter{{cite book|title=Indian Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YWljAAAAMAAJ|year=1977|publisher=Sahitya Akademi.}}
- Madhab Chandra Dash, Environmentalist{{cite book|author=P. C. Mishra|title=Advances in Ecology and Environmental Sciences|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iPEegmF3IB4C&pg=PR15|year=1995|publisher=APH Publishing|isbn=978-81-7024-676-3|pages=15–}}
- Kalindi Charan Panigrahi, poet{{cite book|title=Glimpses on Art and Literature, Orissa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5s1eAGVWTWcC|year=1976|publisher=Cuttack Students Store}}
- Sachidananda Routray, poet{{cite book|author=Sachi Rautroy|title=Verticals of Life: Selected Poems of Sachi Raut-Roy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4Szcvh6bWAkC&pg=PA3|year=1996|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-260-0138-5|pages=3–}}
See also
Gallery
File:Fieldview 1.jpg|Playground
File:Headmaster.jpg|Outside Headmaster's Chamber
File:Corridor view3.jpg|Corridor
File:Room 19.jpg|Room 19
File:Insideview 1.jpg|Inside the classroom
References
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