Kalikrishna Girls' High School

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Official name	Kalikrishna Girls High School
Key people	- (Headmistress)
School type	Semi Government school Girls' school
Operated by	West Bengal Government
Location	R B Chatterjee Rd,Barasat,North 24 Parganas,West Bengal,India
State	West Bengal
Country	India
Contact	+91-33-25625636 +91-33-25523495
School Colors	Green and White
Grades	I-XII
Curriculum	West Bengal Board of Secondary Education West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education(Class 11 and 12).
Founded Current location	1847
Information current as of	February 2006

Kalikrishna Girls' High School is a high school for girls on the town of Barasat near Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal. The school has class I to XII. It is one of the oldest girls' school in India. Kalikrishna Mitra, with the support of Nabinkrishna Mitra and Peary Charan Sarkar established the school in 1847, the first non-government girls’ school, run by Indians.^[1]

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Sengupta, Subodh Chandra and Bose, Anjali (editors), (1976/1998), Sansad Bangali Charitabhidhan (Biographical dictionary) in Bengali, pp 291-292, ISBN 81-85626-65-0