Aga Khan School, Dhaka

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The Aga Khan School, Dhaka
Location
Primary section: Road # 9, Sector # 4 Junior section: Road # 6, Sector # 4 Senior section: Road # 6A, Sector # 4 Uttara, Dhaka , 1230 Bangladesh
Coordinates	23°51′38.41″N 90°24′08.08″E / 23.8606694°N 90.4022444°E / 23.8606694; 90.4022444 (senior building)
Information
Type	Private
Established	1988 (1988)
School district	Dhaka
Head of Education	Dr. Dale Taylor
Faculty	67 (2013)[1]
Grades	12
Enrollment	1,222 (2013)[1]
Website	www.agakhanschools.org/Bangladesh/AKSD

The Aga Khan School, Dhaka, is an English Medium School, in Uttara, Dhaka[2][3] under the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN)[1] and the Aga Khan Education Service, Bangladesh.[2] It is one of the earliest private English Medium schools in Bangladesh founded in 1988,[4] in a small campus in Siddeshwari, Dhaka.[2][3] Dr. Dale Taylor is the current Head of Education.

The Aga Khan School, Dhaka was formed back in 1988, in the library of the Ismaili Tariqah and Religious Education Board (ITREB), an institution of the Aga Khan Education Service, Bangladesh. The foundations of the present system were laid by Sir Sultan Mohamed Shah, Aga Khan III, who established over 200 schools during the first half of the 20th century, the first of them in 1905 in Zanzibar, Gwadur in Pakistan and Mundra in India.[4] Since the creation of Aga Khan Education Service companies in the 1970s, the schools have been administered and managed centrally. The school started with 25 students and 7 teaching staff, occupying classes IX to XII.[2]

In August of 1990, the present senior section opened in Uttara.[2] The junior and primary sections were opened in 1999 and 2000 respectively.

The school was authorized as an International Baccalaureate World School in April 2009.

In 2009, the longest serving Head of Education, George G. Kays, retired, serving the school from July 1998 to June 2009.[2] Jacqueline Parai served as the Head of the School from 2009 to 2011.[2]

Dr. Dale Taylor is the current Head of Education.[5]

As of 2013, the school consists of a student body of 1,222 and a faculty of 118 teachers.[1] The school offers education from preschool to higher secondary levels (playgroup, nursery, kindergarten I and II and grades 1 to 12), following the British national curriculum, designed to prepare students for IGCSE and GCE Advanced Level examinations.

Fahmida Chowdhury is serving as Head of Secondary School, while Shatila Reza is serving as Head of Middle School.[5] The chairman of the board is Mr. Suleiman Ajanee. The school organizes annual events, functions and concerts. Annually, the Ordinary and Advanced Level examinees of Aga Khan School perform impressively in the exams, as evidenced by their presence at The Daily Star Awards for schools following the Cambridge International Examinations.

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The school has been an IB World School since April 2009. It offers the IB Primary Years Program in English. Additionally, the school is moving to the complete IB Curriculum, which will be conducted at new premises at Bashundhara, Dhaka. The institute offering the IB program will be named The Aga Khan Academy.

The proposed Aga Khan Academy has been in the planning stages for several years, and the Aga Khan Education Service, Bangladesh (AKES,B) have obtained pre-authorization from the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) to implement the IB Primary Years Programme (IB-PYP) in pre-school (Play Group and Nursery), Kindergarten and Grades 1 to 5.

His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan IV, on his visit to Bangladesh, laid the foundation stone for the Aga Khan Academy in Basundhara, Dhaka. This will be a full-fledged IBO authorized school offering the Primary Years Program (PYP), the Middle Years Program (MYP) for Grades 6 to 10, and the Diploma Program (IB-DP) for students in Grades 11 and 12. However, little construction has been completed.

The academy will have International Academic Partnership (IAP) agreements with Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, United States and Schule Schloss Salem in Salem, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Reflections, the AKSD Yearbook, has been a strong tradition for 30 years, since its inception in 1995 and its last ever yearbook, published in 2024. The Yearbook is created by the Yearbook Committee, a group formed by students who perform every task to get the book published from scratch. The following is a list of the books, and their corresponding lead editors.

Tenure	Nationality	Name[2]
1988–1991		Mohiuddin Babar (acting)
1991–1994		Zul Khuja
1994–1997		Kenneth McCaffery
1997–2009		George Gaddon Kays
2010–2011		Jacqueline Parai
2011–2014		Nicola Sum
2015 —2017		Fatima J. Husein
2017 – November 2018		Craig Salmon
2019–2021		Dr. Dale Taylor

As of Oct 2017, the School Leadership Team consists of:[5]

• Aga Khan Education Services
• Aga Khan Development Network
• Aga Khan Academies

• "The Aga Khan School, Dhaka – Bangladesh". Archived from the original on 12 May 2011. Retrieved 14 November 2006.
• "The Aga Khan Schools". Retrieved 14 November 2006.
• "The Aga Khan Development Network". Archived from the original on 15 November 2006. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
• "The Aga Khan School Dhaka Alumni Association". Archived from the original on 17 July 2006. Retrieved 17 December 2006.