St Gregory's School

St Gregory's School located at a place near victoria park, Dhaka was established in 1882 by Father Gregory de Groots, a Belgian Benedict priest. It was originally intended for Eurasian students and as its first man-in-charge knew no other language than his native Flemish, it could draw little public interest at the beginning. It was closed twice before 1889 when it took a fresh start with standards 1 to 6 under Holy Cross Father Francis Boers as its new headmaster. The school reopened on the ground floor of St. Francis Girls' School. It was shifted to a new site in 1896, its enrolment started to increase and in 1898, it had about a hundred students including six Bengali boys and two Bengali girls.
The school conducted education and examinations in European style until 1923, when it sought and received permission to come under Board Examination leading to its recognition in 1924. After creation of Pakistan in 1947, the school had started teaching in English medium to offer opportunity to students whose mother tongue was not Bengali. It also ran Bengali medium sections. The school once offered space to dhaka collegiate school. Also, notre dame college began here as St. Gregory's College.
The school earned reputation for excellent results of its students in matriculation/S S C examinations. But in the early 1970s, its performances were not up to the mark. It did not, however, take long to recover and again demonstrate good performance in the examination results, sports, science exhibitions, cultural meets and the scout movement, for which its alumni take pride in being Gregorians.
The school ran as a co-education one until 1912, when the girls joined St Francis Xavier Girls High School. Ever since it is a boys' school. In 1999, it had 1,540 students studying in classes one to ten. That year it had 43 teachers, of whom 11 were women. The school can boast of the many eminent personalities who are in the list of its alumni. To name a few, Dr Amartya Sen (Nobel Laureate Economist), Tajuddin Ahmed (first prime minister of Bangladesh), Dr Kamal Hossain (former law and justice minister of Bangladesh), and Dr Osman Faruque (education minister of Bangladesh, 2001- 2006).