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Ispahani Public School & College

Educational institution of Chittagong

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Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ11255526 ↗
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Ispahani Public School & College, Chattogram commonly referred to as IPSC, is a prominent private educational institution on Zakir Hossain Road in Chittagong, Bangladesh. The institution offers primary, secondary, and higher secondary education facilities under the Chittagong Education Board. Founded by Mirza Ahmad Ispahani in 1979 and currently leading by Mirza Salman Ispahani. This institution is widely known for its excellent results in J.S.C., S.S.C., and H.S.C. exams and its discipline. Muntasirul Islam was the founding principal and rector of the Ispahani Public School (1979–1985).

History

The school started in 1981 with a three storied building having students from KG-1 to class eight. By this time the school had grown with many multistoried buildings, a science laboratory, a library, and a sports room, and extended its level up to higher secondary. In 1989, the school achieved the status of a public school and started offering primary secondary and higher secondary education facilities under the Chittagong Education Board from the academic year of 1989–90. The student first appeared in S.S.C exam in 1985 and H.S.C exam in 1991. Now the institution is widely known for its excellent result in S.S.C. and H.S.C. exam and its excellent discipline.

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“Ispahani Public School & College” enters the record as educational institution of Chittagong. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ispahani, Public and School can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979, 1985, 1981, 1989—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1979. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ispahani, Public and School.
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“Ispahani Public School & College” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Ispahani, Public and School provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11255526. Authority coordinates are 22.360, 91.816. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1979, 1985, 1981 and 1989.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ispahani Public School & College” 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.