page_title: Wickramabahu Central College
section_title: Recent history
hierarchical_section_title: Wickramabahu Central College / Recent history
caption_attribution_description: English: Flag of Wickramabahu Central College
context_page_description: Wickramabahu Central College, founded in 1946, is a Madhya Maha Vidyalaya located in Gampola in Central Province, Sri Lanka. It is a Buddhist school with around 90 teaching staff members and around 1,500 students. It has been a co-educational school for the past 64 years.
  At present, the school is a 1AB Super school with 36 buildings. Today the school has become the heart of the hill country with a reputed number of old students in Sri Lanka as well as abroad.
context_section_description: With the introduction of Technology Subject Stream for A/L Classes in 250 schools in Sri Lanka, Wickramabahu Central College (National School) was upgraded to an 1AB Super school.
  Under Education Ministry's 1000 schools project, a Type 2 - Mahindodaya Technical Laboratory was granted to the school and it was ceremonially opened by Hon. Prime Minister D.M. Jayarathne on the 03rd June 2014. It consists of the following facilities:
  Information & Communication Technology Centre
  Language Lab
  Mathematics Lab
  Nenasa Distance Learning Centre
  These labs are equipped with modern, sophisticated computers and multimedia equipment.
  Other than those the Technical Faculty is in the last stage of its construction and will be opened for the benefit of the students in the near future.
  Though the school catchment area was limited to Gampola area, at the beginning, with the wider range of objectives of the Central Schools, students from all the areas of Sri Lanka have attended the school for the past 64 years.
  Now it is being supported under the "1000 Schools Project" under the Ministry of Education. The following schools are connected as the catchment schools for the Central College.
  K/ Wallahagoda K.V.
  K/ Gampolawela K.V.
  K/ Andrews College
  Gampola Muslim M.V.
  Jinaraja Girls’ College
  Gangasiripura K.V.
  Because of the frame of the school students from different areas of the country throng towards it. Specialty students enroll at the school as scholarship holders and who are enthusiastic in sports. The parents who adore the concept of Central Colleges are major among the parents who send their children to the college at present.
caption: Flag of Wickramabahu Central College (National School)
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