Aga Khan School, Dhaka

The Aga Khan School, Dhaka, is an English Medium School, in Uttara, Dhaka under the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) and the Aga Khan Education Service, Bangladesh (AKES,B). It is one of the earliest private English Medium schools in Bangladesh founded in 1988, in a small campus in Siddeshwari, Dhaka.HistoryThe Aga Khan School Dhaka was formed back in 1988, in the library of the Ismaili Tariqah and Religious Education Board an institution of the Aga Khan Education Service, Bangladesh. The foundations of the present system were laid by Sir Sultan Mohamed Shah, Aga Khan III, under whose guidance over 200 schools were established during the first half of the 20th century, the first of them in 1905 in Zanzibar, Gwadur in Pakistan and Mundra in India. Since the creation of Aga Khan Education Service companies in the 1970s, the schools have been centrally administered and managed. The school started with 25 students and 7 teaching staff, occupying classes IX to XII.In August 1990 the present Senior section opened in Uttara. The Junior and Primary sections were opened in 1999 and 2000 respectively.The school achieved a major milestone in April 2009, when it was authorized as an International Baccalaureate World School.In 2009, the longest serving Head of Education, George G. Kays, retired, serving the school from July 1998 to June 2009. Jacqueline Parai served as the Head of the School from 2009 to 2011.