Central Model School, Lahore



Government Central Model School, Lahore is a public school in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. More than 3,000 students study in the school.

History
Central Model School was established in 1883 as middle school in the building of Anarkali Girls High School, opposite the Punjab University senate hall. The middle school was upgraded to high level in 1888 and shifted to a portion of Central Training College. The space in the training college being insufficient, the school was shifted to the present building in 1891 near District Courts Lahore.

Junior classes were abolished in 1920 by H.T. Nolton, the headmaster, but were restored in 1940 by the first Muslim headmaster of the school, M.A. Makhdumi. The Makhdumi hall is named after him.

Central Model School served as a laboratory school for the Central Training College from 1891 to 1991.

The school was granted autonomous status in 1990, with its own board of governors.

Campus
CMS Lahore spreads over an area of 23,000 square metres, with a covered area of 14,000 square meters. It has 150 rooms, two halls, a library, seven laboratories, and workshops and a canteen.

Classrooms
The school consists of many blocks which are dedicated to their own classes. Each class is divided into 10 sections(A-J) at the senior wing level. On the matriculation level, the J section is the only one where arts subjects (Physical Education, Poultry farming etc.) are taught and from A-D sections Biology (alongside other sciences and compulsory subjects) are taught. The sections from E-I Computer Science is taught in place of Biology. There is not much difference in subjects in 6th,7th and 8th grades.

Notable teachers
Teachers are the greatest asset of an educational institute. Some notable teachers include: Rao Shahid Khalil, Arshad Mahmood, Ashiq Javed, Ehsan ul Haq, Kaleem ullah Babar and many more. Approximately 150 teachers with great expertise in their respective fields are currently teaching at this institution.

Former headmasters
Mohan Lal Bhalla was the first Indian to serve as headmaster from 1929 to 1940. M.A. Makhdoomi was the first Muslim headmaster, from 1940 to 1947.

M.A. Bari, Ibrahim Shamim and Mian Mahmood Ali served the institution until 1959, when Ghulam Nabi Butt (1959-1970) took over. Gulzar Ahmed Bhatti, Muhammad Nazeer

Current headmasters
The current senior headmaster is Syed Khalid Umar and junior headmaster is Rao Shah Khalil

Accomplishments
This school has scored great accomplishments in the Board Exams and many positions in Board Exams.

Notable alumni
Bilal U. Haq, naturalist and poet, geoscientist, laureate of the Prestwich Prize in Geoscience from France, inducted in the European Academy of Science and Letters and elected to fellowship of American Association for the Advancement of Science. Recipient of the International Distinguished Career Award from the Geological Society of America, the Ocean Sciences Award from the American Geophysical Union, the Francis Shepard Medal in Marine Geology, the Antarctic Medal from the US National Science Foundation, and immortalized by his peers by the naming of a marine fossil genus and species after him.