The school's authorities and former students arranged the fair.

Established in 1904 by the Teacher's Training College, the school is spread over an area of 2.5 acres. It is one of the two prominent landmarks of the Armanitola area along with the Tara Mosque located right next to it. The Teacher's Training College of undivided India that was operating with British lecturers and staff in the beginning of the century, was using the school as an experimental project.

Until 1910 the school had a number of efficient and strict disciplinarian British teachers. The first headmasters of the school were John E. Whitaker (1904-1910) and Abinash Chandra Ghosh (1910-1911), the first native headmaster.

"I am proud to have graduated from this school which has a great history and has produced many scholars and prominent members of the society," said poet Asad Chowdhury.

The golden period of the school, according to ex-students, was between 1928 and 1958. During that period, Shamsuddin Ahmed, an assistant teacher gradually rose to the position of the headmaster.

"He was loved and respected by all," said Nuruddin Kamal, secretary general of the Armanitola Govt. School Ex-student Reunion 2004.

"His motivational qualities and his kind disposition were probably the primary reasons behind the excellent results of students during that period," said Kamal.

During the War of Independence in 1971, a large number of students of this school became freedom fighters and many laid their lives to free the motherland from the Pakistani occupation forces. Lt. General (Retd.) Mir Shawkat Ali Bir Uttom (BU), Air Vice Marshal (Retd.) Sultan Mahmud BU, Late Abul Manzur BU are just a few among the many ex-students who have been decorated with the BU and Bir Pratik awards.

Among the scholars, Dr. Mahfuzul Haque secured first position from Dhaka Board in the SSC examination of 1946 while Manjurul Karim came up with record breaking marks in the SSC examination of 1952.

The school has also produced some of the top sportsmen of the country like Mahmudur Rahman Momin, Bashir Ahmed, Protap Shankar Hazra, Abdus Sadek, Jamal Haidar and Shabbir Yousuf.

"We always had a competitive edge over other academic institutions in football, cricket, hockey and basketball," said Asad Chowdhury.

Most of the rules and procedures that the school authorities had adopted during its early days are still in place and followed.

The school is divided into four houses which compete against each other in different sports, debates and other extra curricular activities.

The school has separate committees to ensure efficiency.

"Currently we have over 22 committees consisting of teachers and students, who look after various aspects related to the school," said Abul Hasnat Farooq, the current principal of the school.

At the end of every academic year, the committees are awarded based on their performance. Due to its reputation and high standard of education, the school boasts over 1,450 students at present.

Renovation work and redecoration of the school was going on when which the celebration programme was planned.

"It was a tedious process trying to get hold of the ex-students of the school for the ceremony," said Nuruddin Kamal who added that they started preparing nearly 20 months in advance.

The three-day event which was held from December 23 to 25 was attended by 2,500 former students. The oldest ex-student to register was 93-year-old Shafiqul Amin from the batch of 1930.