Garpawoong Middle Secondary School

School Profile:

The present Garpawoong Middle Secondary School is an offshoot of the erstwhile Dewathang LSS segregated in the beginning of 2009 academic session.‘Garpa’ literally means old traditional Bhutanese soldier and ‘woong’ means flat ground in tshangla-kha (sharchhop-kha). Thus, the name of Garpawoong Middle Secondary School is derived from soldier ground. It is believed that the name was given by the local community after the famous battle of Diwangiri which was fought between Trongsa Penlop and British soldiers on 29th January, 1865.

It is located 22 kilometres away from the Dzongkhag Headquarter and 3.5 kilometres below the Samdrupjongkhar-Trashigang highway. The school has perhaps, one of the spacious compound in the kingdom with 18.06 acres of land.

The school has classes from VII to X with total of 365 students in this 2017 academic session consisting of 169 boys and 196 girls. A team of 20 energetic, professionally sound, experienced and committed teachers with 9 supporting staff nurture the budding students to blossom into GNH citizens. The first batch of Class X students produced 100% result and thereafter the succeeding batches topped the BCSE results in the Dzongkhag. This was our greatest and profound achievement in the academic landscape.

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