Daulatpur Mohsin High School

Daulatpur Mohsin High School first high school of khulna district. It is located at daulatpur, the oldest river port in southern Bengal. Greater part of the zamindari estates of haji muhammad mohsin was in this district. The management office of the Saidpur Trust Estate comprising Saidpur, Shovana and Charbhadra of the district was at Daulatpur. Manager of this estate, Babu Khetragopal Bandyopadhyay, planned the establishment of the school and sought help of the deputy collector, Babu Brahmanath Som, who was also the officer in charge of the estate. The school was established on 2 February 1867. Initially, it was a minor school and was named Daulatpur-Saidpur Trust Estate School. Later, the name was changed to Daulatpur Minor School. At the beginning, the classes were held in a room of the shop of an eminent trader, Babu Gouramohan Saha. The school was later upgraded to a high school. Babu Abhayakumar Sen was appointed its first headmaster.
Classes of the school began with only 54 students. In a few months time, Babu Rajmohan Ghosh took over as the new headmaster and Babu Taraknath Bhattacharya joined the school as the head grammar teacher. In six months' time, the number of students grew significantly and the school was shifted to the house of Sri Umacharan Mukherjee at Maheswarpasha. It continued to receive a donation of Rs 54 per month from the Estate Trust and its monthly revenues in the form of tuition fees totaled Rs 17.
Major part of these revenues was spent to pay the headmaster's salary (Rs 30 per month). In 1870, 13 students from this school appeared in the Medium English Final Examinations and 12 passed. Students of the school continued to perform well in examinations and in recognition, the school was upgraded to a High English School in February 1875. Collector of jessore, James Monrow, who was an agent of the Saidpur Trust Estate, shifted the school to the bungalow of the Trust. After the office of the sub-register was closed, the abandoned building was transferred to the school and this solved its accommodation problem. The school opened a madrasah section, which attracted the Muslims to the school.
In 1887, the school buildings were damaged by a fire. Damages caused by the event and a potential threat of the erosion of the river bhairab called for shifting of the school to a new site at the Trust Estate's Bungalow. The school suffered a setback in another devastating fire in June 1894. A new brick building was constructed in 1900. The school received grants and donations from the Trust Estate and the government, and also contributions from local people.
In 1914, the government of Bengal decided to open courses on carpentry in the school. The decision was implemented in 1916. The school purchased 5 bighas of land adjacent to it for constructing a playground and a hostel for students. To encourage Muslims in taking education, they were offered an opportunity to study in the school without paying tuition fee.
A prominent name among the alumni of the school is syed nausher ali, who joined the school in 1919 as an assistant teacher and later, became Chairman of the Jessore District Board, member of the Railway Board, member and speaker of the Bengal Legislative Assembly and a minister in the cabinet of Sher-e-Bangla ak fazlul huq. Three alumni of the school, Sri Fanibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Abdul Hamid and Sarwar Jahan were elected members of the Bengal Provincial Parliament. Other noted alumni include writer Bangal Abu Sayeed, poets and novelists Kazi Abdul Khalek and Khagendranath Basu, engineer S M Shahidullah, actor Golam Mustafa, and singers Shaikh Ismail Hossain and Shymal Chattopadhyay. Bankimchandra chattopadhyay was a teacher in this school for some time.
At present, the school conducts classes from grade 6 to grade 10 in the science, arts and commerce sections. In 2000, the school had 973 students and 19 teachers, of whom 3 were women. The school has a total of three acres of land and four buildings, of which two are two-storied and others are one-storied. It has two playgrounds. It continues to maintain its tradition of performing well in public examinations.