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{{Infobox school
| name = Hooghly Branch (Govt) School
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| motto = Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram
| motto_translation = Truth, Spirituality, Beauty
| address = Chawk Bazar, Hooghly
| city = Hughli-Chuchura
| state = West Bengal
| postal_code = 712103
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| country = India
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| established = 1834
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| school_board = [[WBBSE]] & [[WBCHSE]]
| authority = Government of West Bengal
| category = Higher Secondary
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| gender = Boys
| affiliations = Department of Higher Education, Government of West Bengal
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| website = {{URL|http://www.hooghlybranchgovtschool.org}}
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'''Hooghly Branch Government School''' (or '''Hooghly Branch (Govt) School'''), established in 1834, is one of the oldest<ref>{{Cite web|title = General report on public instruction in the Bengal Presidency. Calcutta: G. H. Huttmann, Bengal Mily. Orphan Press. 1843. |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=KH8IAAAAQAAJ&dq=Hooghly+Branch+school&pg=PA1|last1 = Southey|first1 = Robert|year = 1843}}</ref> schools in West Bengal. It is located in Chawk Bazar, Hooghly, within the area of Hooghly-Chinsurah Municipality.<ref>{{Cite web|title = List of schools - Welcome to Hooghly Chinsurah Municipality |url = http://hcm.net.in/Default.aspx?PageId=83}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hcm.net.in/Default.aspx?PageId=83|title=List of schools|website=Hooghly-Chinsurah Municipality}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://wbscsgs.in/govtmeet_perticipation2018.php|title=All Bengal Inter-Govt.Schools Sports Meet, 2019|work=West Bengal State Council for Sports, Government of West Bengal}}</ref>

The school is administered by the state government of West Bengal and admits only males. The School has two sessions, morning and day session. Students are taught from class 1 to class 12.

The school's primary medium of instruction is Bengali and English is second language. However, on the higher secondary section, people are allowed to choose the medium of instruction as English.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Hooghly Branch (Govt) School/iCBSE |url = https://www.icbse.com/schools/hooghly-branch-govt-school-o9q8wz?amp=1}}</ref>

== Notable alumni ==
* [[Sankar Basu]], electrical engineer and contributor to US science policy
* [[Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay]], Bengali novelist
* [[Bijan Kumar Mukherjea]], 4th Chief Justice of India<ref>{{Cite web|title = Bijon Kumar Mukherjee |url = https://en.m.Bharatpedia.org/wiki/Bijan_Kumar_Mukherjea}}</ref>{{Circular reference|date=September 2023}}
* [[Surajit Sengupta]], Footballer<ref>{{Cite web|title = Surajit Sengupta |url = https://en.m.Bharatpedia.org/wiki/Surajit_Sengupta}}</ref>{{Circular reference|date=September 2023}}

==See also==
*[[Education in India]]
*[[List of schools in India]]
*[[Education in West Bengal]]

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://wikimapia.org/171501/Hooghly-Branch-School] Hooghly Branch School location at [[Wikimapia]]

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