Nabadwip Bakultala High School

This school was founded primarily with the name 'Nabadwip Banga Vidyalaya' in the year 1875 at another place, where now situated a girls' school namely Nabadwip Bakultala Balika Vidyalaya.^[2] In those days, the surrounding remained in cheery echoing of children. As lessons were started under a Spanish Cheery tree ('বকুল' in Bengali language), it came to be known as 'Bakultala School' by the people.^[3] Every year 3 January is observed as the establishment day of school. Though it was a primary school at the time of foundation, now the primary section is not running. It became a high school in 1924.^[4] The first secretary of the school was Jana Ranjan Roy (1925 - 1928) and the first president was the S.D.O. (Ex-officio) of Sadar Subdivision, Nadia (01/01/1925 - 23/12/1966).^[5] Rajendraprasad Choudhury was the first Headmaster of the school.^[6] Headmasters Shri Shashibhushan Tarafdar (1924 - 1942) and Shri Nityaniranjan Kabiraj (1942 - 1960) are being remembered greatly in the history of the school.^[6]

This school is situated beside Nabadwip Municipality. There are about 40 classrooms distributed among two three-storied and one one-storied building. There are separate laboratories of Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, ICT, Computer, Biology and Geography. Students can use library using card. Students can take part in N C C . Now there are 34 teachers and 9 teaching-staffs in this school. Nabadwip Bakultala High School is one of the oldest higher secondary schools of Nabadwip as well as Nadia district. Near about 1450 students read in this school. The yearly magazine 'Bakulkatha' was published in 2018. Every year the handwritten wall-magazine 'Bakulkunri' (বকুলকুঁড়ি) is being published as well.

The primary medium of education is Bengali. Students are able to give exam in English version in the HS section. Since 2018, Class V to X students have been able to read in English medium, starting from class V batch and subsequently the higher classes next years.

There is an Alumni Association named Nabadwip Bakultala Vidyalaya Praktan Chhatra Sammilani , established in 1990; functiong as a distinct and connected community of ex-students. The association conducts various programmes throughout the year. A primary school named Nabadwip Bakultala School of Education is run by NBVPCS. An open schooling study centre under WBCROS, Nabadwip Bakultala Rabindra Mukta Vidyalaya is run by the organisation. A study centre under Netaji Subhas Open University is also run by the association. The association is headquartered in a separate building situated beside the main school campus.

The alumni network is strong. The ex-students are spread worldwide and established in own fields. Some of the notable persons are:

• Gour Kishore Ghosh, Writer
• Samar Ghosh, Ex-Chief secretary of Government of West Bengal
• Swami Suhitananda, Vice President of Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission
• Santosh Kapuria, Professor at IIT Delhi
• Ujjwal Maulik, Scientist and Professor at Jadavpur University^[7]
• Nirmalya Sengupta
• Dr. Pritam Sukul, Senior Medical Scientist at University of Rostock