Sylhet Government Pilot High School

Around 1830, during the rule of the British East India Company, Lord William Bentinck had ordered the establishment of this school in order to make the people of the region speak English properly.^{[citation needed]}

The school, the first English one in Sylhet, was formally founded in 1836.^[1] In 1841, only 41 students were studying there. Reverend Price then took charge of the school as headmaster and transformed the school into a missionary school. The school was then handed over to Reverend Price.

In 1869, the name of the school was changed to "Sylhet Government High School" and Roy Saheb Durga Kumar Bose was appointed as the headmaster. The school was destroyed in the earthquake of 1897 and later the school was moved to its present location (Kalighat). When Roy Saheb Durga Kumar Bose voluntarily retired in 1903, Baikunthanath Bhattacharya took charge as the headmaster. Another earthquake destroyed the school in 1918 and the school was rebuilt in 1919. In 1926, the school was damaged by a severe flood and in 1929, the entire school, except for one building, was destroyed by fire. During World War II in 1939, the school building was used as a camp for soldiers, and after the soldiers left, the school resumed its work.

In 1955, the school was named Sylhet Government Pilot High School by the project of piloting schools by the East Pakistan Government. In 1962, Abdul Wahid Chowdhury took over as headmaster, improved the science lab, and increased the number of teachers. In 1967 he was selected as the best head teacher of the Chittagong division. In the same year, he was awarded "Tamga-e-Khedmat" for his radical transformation of the school.

In 1971, Pakistani soldiers set fire to the school, destroying many important documents and burning books. In 1999, the school was divided into morning and day shifts.Sylhet Government Pilot High School won the national prize in 2003.^{[citation needed]}

Sylhet Government Pilot High School celebrated its 175th anniversary in 2010 with a grand reunion on 20 and 21 January 2010 at the school campus.

The school's administration committee forms with the Headmaster, assistant Headmaster, four senior teachers respectively from every section of class 10 of each shift and three junior teachers. The school's Headmaster is the head of administration committee and holds complete authority over the committee. Headmaster's say in every decision is final. As there are two shifts so, there is two Assistant Headmasters to represent their own shifts. They work more like advisors to the Headmaster. The junior teachers act like the students' representative. And the senior teachers are more like mediator in every decision . They do all the paper work and administrative work they maintain discipline and to maintain discipline they give every class teachers the authority to elect or select a class captain (class monitor) as their wish. Sometimes the captains hold immense power in the class in the absence of any teacher (such as giving punishment to any undisciplined student) or sometimes they don't.

Alphabetically listed according to the last name.