Aga Khan School, Dhaka
The Aga Khan School, Dhaka, is an English Medium School, in Uttara, Dhaka under the Aga Khan Development Network and the Aga Khan Education Service, Bangladesh. It is one of the earliest private English Medium schools in Bangladesh founded in 1988, in a small campus in Siddeshwari, Dhaka. Dr. Dale Taylor is the current Head of Education.
History
The Aga Khan School, Dhaka was formed back in 1988, in the library of the Ismaili Tariqah and Religious Education Board, 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. 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.In August of 1990, the present senior section opened in Uttara. 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. Jacqueline Parai served as the Head of the School from 2009 to 2011.
Dr. Dale Taylor is the current Head of Education.
Description
As of 2013, the school consists of a student body of 1,222 and a faculty of 118 teachers. The school offers education from preschool to higher secondary levels, 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. 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.
International Baccalaureate certification
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 have obtained pre-authorization from the International Baccalaureate Organization to implement the IB Primary Years Programme in pre-school, 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, the Middle Years Program for Grades 6 to 10, and the Diploma Program for students in Grades 11 and 12. However, little construction has been completed.
The academy will have International Academic Partnership agreements with Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, United States and Schule Schloss Salem in Salem, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Reflections (The Aga Khan Yearbook)
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.| Year | Name | Lead Editors |
| 1995 | REFLECTIONS | Shafat Zaman, Hasan Munasir, Tazin Abdullah |
| 1996 | REFLECTIONS '96 | Mumtad Choudhury, Ju-un Choudhury |
| 1997 | REFLECTIONS '97 | Mashfiq Ul Haque |
| 1998 | 89' ƧИOITƆƎ⅃ꟻƎЯ | Fuad Abdullah, Nazmul Alam, Ahad Hussain |
| 1999 | REFLECTIONS ‘99 | Amir Sattar, Sama Khan, Samin Abdullah |
| 2000 | REFLECTIONS 2000 | Faria Tazin Rahman, Sabeer Zaman |
| 2003 | REFLECTIONS 2002-03 | Munir Susan, Shoeb Sonia, Ibrahim Mohammad |
| 2004 | REFLECTIONS 2003-04 | Tahsin Mahmood, Karina Z. Khandakar |
| 2007 | REFLECTIONS 2004-07 | Rashid Mustafa, Bidoura Mosharraf, Naushin Ahmed |
| 2008 | REFLECTIONS 2007-08 | Faiyaz Amit, Sharina Muzahid |
| 2009 | REFLECTIONS 2008-09 | Wasi Mesbahuddin, Naushin Ahmed, Ridwan Faruq, Ahnaf Habib Khan |
| 2012 | REFLECTIONS 2009-12 | Hassan Ferdous, Saad Bin Reza, Fahria Tasneem, Tushar Ahmed |
| 2014 | REFLECTIONS 2013-14 | Saadman Islam, Mujaheed Khan |
| 2016 | REFLECTIONS 2015-16 | Anisha Islam, Naiyara Ahscan. |
| 2017 | REFLECTIONS 2016-17 | Prionzita Chakraborty, Afrida Nawal, Senjuti Basak |
| 2018 | REFLECTIONS 2017-18 | Drubha Nil Ghosh, Tousif Islam, Bushratun Nusaibah |
| 2019 | REFLECTIONS 2018-19 | Fabia Masud, Farazi Fayezuddin, Bushratun Nusaibah, Tousif Islam |
| 2020 | REFLECTIONS 2019-20 | Nabiha Mahmud, Smiti Modhurima |
| 2024 | REFLECTIONS 2023-34 | Syed Rohan Hoque, Tahsin Shabab Khan |