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Ghazi High School

school in Kabul, Kabul Province, Afghanistan

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ25425546 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ghazi High School (Persian: لیسه غازی) is a school in Kabul, which has educated many of the former and current elite in Afghans, including Zalmay Khalilzad. It was founded by King Amanullah Khan in 1928.

It is situated in the north of the city in a district known as Carteh Chahar. It suffered severe damage during the civil war of the 1990s between the different mujahideen factions who had ousted the government of Mohammad Najibullah in 1992.

Rebuilding

The reconstruction of Ghazi High School by both the Afghan and U.S. government was funded by the USAID’s Kabul Schools Program. The school will be able to accommodate almost 5,400 students a year.

See also

Education in Afghanistan

List of schools in Kabul

List of schools in Afghanistan

References

External links

https://web.archive.org/web/20160509125252/https://www.usaid.gov/afghanistan/news-information/press-releases/ghazi-high-school-reopens-new-look

https://www.unops.org/ApplyBO/File.aspx/II_D_Technical%20Briefing.pdf?AttachmentID=f68f729b-5f5c-470c-ba54-4696b4de7489

http://www.bitlanders.com/movie/ghazi-high-school/31588

"Ghazi High School" (Map). Google Maps.

Editorial summary

“Ghazi High School” enters the record as school in Kabul, Kabul Province, Afghanistan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ghazi, High and School can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1928, 1992—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1928. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ghazi, High and School.
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Why this record matters

“Ghazi High School” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Ghazi, High and School provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q25425546. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1928 and 1992.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ghazi High School” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.