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{{Infobox school
|name = Ballygunge Government High School, Kolkata (India)
|image = Ballygunge Government High School profile image.jpg
|location = 38/2, Naresh Mitra Sarani<br />[[Kolkata]] – 700020
|country = India
|coordinates = {{coord|22.5301|88.3539|type:edu_region:IN|display=inline;title}}
|pushpin_map = India
|established = 1927
|medium of language = English, Bengali
|affiliation = [[West Bengal Board of Secondary Education|WBBSE]] and [[West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education|WBCHSE]]
|yearbook = Baagbitan
|nickname = Ballygungian
|headmaster = Jaydeep Gangopadhyay
|students = 1200
|schooltype = Government school
|authority = Government of West Bengal
|logo =
}}

'''Ballygunge Government High School''', or '''BGHS''', is a school in [[West Bengal]], India. This is a boys' only school for secondary and higher secondary level students. Its medium of instruction is English. It was once considered one of the best Bengali medium schools in [[Kolkata]] and continues to be a good one. The campus includes a fairly large play-ground and the school offers variety of extracurricular activities for its students. The school has produced many well known academics, film and theater personalities, journalist and musicians.
Currently, there are over 1200 students enrolled at this school. The school is adjacent to Kolkata Regional Transport Office (RTO)/Ballygunge police station and Kolkata Motor Vehicles Department

==Classes==
Class one to class five are taught in the morning section, while classes from six to twelve are conducted at the day section

Every year the classes are taken by trainee teachers for some time, as, Govt of West Bengal had set up a Teachers' Training College name David Hare Training College. To facilitate the trainee teachers, an idea of starting a model school came to the authorities and eventually a school was established just behind the Teachers Training college, exactly as per the copy book of an ideal School. Hence the birth of Ballygunge Govt School in 1927 and the first batch of School Final came out in 1928.

==Events==
First wall magazine was published at the main stairs in 1971, named SAPTARSHI—with poems, short stories, and articles and caricature, by the then class X students
* Wall magazine "Iiha (ইহা)" with articles, poems and short stories.
*School magazine "Baagbitan (বাগবিতান)" is published every year. Students and teachers contribute poems, essays, short stories, and sketches.
* An annual three-day arts fair is held at the time of [[Vasant Panchami|Saraswati Puja]]. The students contribute crafts, [[drawing]]s, scientific [[experiment]]s and works for public display.
* Sports events are run during the annual sports.
* [[Independence Day (India)|Independence day]] is celebrated with a [[ceremony]] every year on 15 August in the school premises.
* The school's foundation day is celebrated on 3 January.
* [[Saraswati]] Puja is one of the main festivals held in the school.
* Activities include [[theater]], singing, drawing competition, debate, and recitation.

==Notable alumni==
[[File:Satyajit Ray.jpg|thumb|upright|Satyajit Ray was a student of this school]]

*[[Ajit Kumar Banerjee]] - Environmentalist
*[[Gautam Bhattacharya]] - Sports journalist
*[[Nabarun Bhattacharya]] - Novelist
*[[R.D. Burman]] - Film score composer and music director
*[[Rajat Kanta Ray]] - Historian
*[[Rajatava Dutta]] - Actor
*[[Ritwik Ghatak]] - Filmmaker and script-writer<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/jspui/bitstream/10603/165463/16/16_appendix.pdf|title=details of works|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref>
*[[Rupankar Bagchi]] - Singer
*[[Satyajit Ray]] - Author, composer, lyricist, poet and filmmaker
*[[Sombhu Mitra]] - Actor, director
*[[Subrata Mitra]] - Cinematographer
*[[Sukhamoy Chakraborty]] - Economist<ref>{{Cite document|title=Gupta, Partha Sarathi. "Of shared days with Amartya." India International Centre Quarterly 25 (1998): 70-75.|jstor=23005530}}</ref>
*[[Partha Sarathi Gupta]] - Historian<ref>{{Cite document|title=Gupta, Partha Sarathi. "Of shared days with Amartya." India International Centre Quarterly 25 (1998): 70-75.|jstor=23005530}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Power, Politics and the People: Studies in British Imperialism and Indian Nationalism By Partha Sarathi Gupta (Edited with an introduction by Sabayasachi Bhattacharya)|isbn = 9788178240190|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3sZsy6AS7SwC|last1 = Gupta|first1 = Partha Sarathi|year = 2002}}</ref>
*[[Sabyasachi Bhattacharya]] - Historian<ref>{{Cite book|title=Power, Politics and the People: Studies in British Imperialism and Indian Nationalism By Partha Sarathi Gupta (Edited with an introduction by Sabayasachi Bhattacharya)|isbn = 9788178240190|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3sZsy6AS7SwC|last1 = Gupta|first1 = Partha Sarathi|year = 2002}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, the Historian Who Blended Scholarship With Teaching|url=https://thewire.in/education/sabyasachi-bhattacharya-historian-tribute}}</ref>
*[[Surajit Chandra Sinha]] - Anthropologist{{Citation needed|date=March 2018}}
*[[Tapan Raychaudhuri]] - Historian{{Citation needed|date=March 2018}}
*[[Sekhar Basu]] - Indian Nuclear Scientist.
*[[Siddhatha Ghosh]] - Notable science fiction writer.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.bghsalumni.in/ BGHS Alumni Association] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200220093749/http://bghsalumni.in/ |date=20 February 2020 }}

{{Kolkata topics}}

[[Category:Boys' schools in India]]
[[Category:Primary schools in West Bengal]]
[[Category:High schools and secondary schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Educational institutions established in 1927]]
[[Category:1927 establishments in British India]]

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