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D.S. Senanayka College has a huge history of sixty two years. At the time of independence from British colonies D.S.senanayaka College was started at a training college called “Bilingual School” in Mirigama. Later it was shifted near the police station at Mirigama where the junior model school is situated. Those days the school was limited to only one building. Then this school was called “Mirigama Senior School” and was an English medium school. The Maha Nayaka at the Ramanna Nikaya the late Wewaldeniya Medalankara Thero requested from the first prime Minister for a land for the school. The land was owned by a noble person of the area named Hon. Dahanayaka Mudali. Twenty seven acres of his coconut land was purchased by the government and construction was started on the 18th of February 1951. The construction was done immediately so that the school was opened on the 13th of October 1953 as “Mirigama College”. At the beginning Mirigama College was an English medium school with 600 students and the tutorial staff was 25. The 1st principal was K.P. Panyarathna (1947-1952). In 1959 Mirigama College was upgraded as Mirigama Maha vidyalaya. In 1960 the school was completed with a playground, laboratory, pavillon and other buildings. There are students from grade 6-13 of all streams science, Art and commerce. Those days there were 1200 students and 60 teachers. In 1971, the school was named as D.S.Senanayaka Maha Vidyalaya to Honor the founder of the school. Later it was changed as D.S.Senanayaka Central College. The school was converted in to a cluster school in 1987 with 101 schools under it. In 1988 Minister Lalith Athulath Mudali the founder of Mahapola project proposed a wide entrance bridge for the school as well as an internal path way was constructed. On 4th of July 1991 the commissioner of environmental project of Gampaha district. One of the teachers of the staff Mr. Vijira Sirimanna named the huge land in front of the school as “Vana Adaviya” and started growing trees. Now it gives shelter to the school with a huge number of trees. It has enriched the environmental value of the school. Later in 06 January 1998 the minister of education Richard Pathirana legally named this school as a national school. The principal of those days Mr.D.G.L Thilakawardana was a remarkable principal of the school history. After his retirement in 2008 Ven.Makkanigod Assaji Thero was appointed as the principal and he is the present principal of the school. Mirigama D.S.College is a leading school in the Mirigama area. By the advices of Rev.Assaji Thero students’ discipline, education, sports .extra curricular and co-curricular activities are developed and facilitated well. Below are the principles of the school form the past to the present. Name D. S. Senanayake Madya Maha Vidyalaya (National school) Address Mirigama School category 1 A B Students Mixed School Number 01028 Reg. No Department of exams 22391 Initiated 1947 Province Western District Gampaha Education Zone Minuwangoda Division Mirigama Grama seva Division 15/D Walawvaththa Local government division Mirigama Urban Council Divisional secretariat Mirigama Numberof students Girls –767 Boys -760 Number of teachers 98 Became Maha Vidyalaya 1959 Became central school 1971 Became National School 1992

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