Центральная школа им. Лазаря Наджаряна и Галуста Гюльбенкяна, AGBU (Алеппо)
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AGBU The Lazar Najarian - Calouste Gulbenkian Armenian Central High School (Aleppo, Syria)
Armenian Central High School - Aleppo/Syria
The Lazar Najarian - Calouste Guelbenkian Armenian Central High School is the largest among the Diaspora Armenian secondary unisex high schools, in terms of the number of students and staff (1500 persons). Besides the educational curriculum of the Ministry of Education in Syria, our school has the privilege to have an extra Armenian oriented curriculum: Armenian literature, history and language as well as religion classes. Many Armenian songs are also taught during the music classes. With special permission from the government of Syria, for which we are very thankful, Armenian schools maintain the “private school” status after the privatization of schools in Syria, in the seventies.
The Lazar Najarian - Calouste Guelbenkian Armenian Central High School is the largest among the Diaspora Armenian secondary unisex high schools, in terms of the number of students and staff (1500 persons). Besides the educational curriculum of the Ministry of Education in Syria, our school has the privilege to have an extra Armenian oriented curriculum: Armenian literature, history and language as well as religion classes. Many Armenian songs are also taught during the music classes. With special permission from the government of Syria, for which we are very thankful, Armenian schools maintain the “private school” status after the privatization of schools in Syria, in the seventies.
The school was founded in 1954, thanks to the American-Armenian benefactor: the honorable Mr. Lazar Najarian and AGBU's Women's Committee of the New York chapter. In the scholastic year of 1954-55, the school welcomed the first 40 kindergarten and 43 elementary school students who had the famous man-of-letters Levon Vartan as the first principal. Meeting the educational needs of the Armenian community, the union decided to establish the Preparatory and the Secondary sections.
The new sections were built in 1956 and hence two more floors were built; later, the Calouste Guelbenkian Foundation started meeting all the financial needs of the school. Honoring his memorable support, as well as his service as the second president of AGBU, the Preparatory and the Secondary sections were named after the honorable Mr. Calouste Gulbenkian; the Elementary and the Kindergarten were named after the honorable Mr. Lazar Najarian. Thus is school had its composite name: LN-CG.
In the end of the scholastic year of 1959-60, 13 students became the schools first secondary graduates. In 1962, 17 students of the 12th grade participated, for the first time, in the governmental Baccalaureate exams, 14 of which successfully passed them, becoming the first graduate class of the LN-CG Armenian Central High School, and some of them pursued higher education in universities.
In 1962 an estate was bought next to the school, which, after repair and renovation, was assigned to the Kindergarten. This new section consists of four floors. On the first floor, 3 classrooms were built with the help of the benefactor: the honorable Mr. Hampartsum Berberian and hence it was named as The Hampartsum and Sultan Berberian Kindergarden, in their memory.
In 1965 six more classrooms were built on the remaining floors using a donation from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. In 1966 another estate was bought next to the school yard which is 174 m² and joint to the Elementary section. In 1990 the old building of this latter estate was knocked down and three new floors were built adding 12 new classrooms. The AGBU financed all the extension costs. Year after year, the school achieves successful results in the Baccalaureate exams maintaining highest percentage of successfully passing students; the school received many congratulatory certificate hence, from the Ministry of Education.
