Ballygunge Government High School
Ballygunge Government High School (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