About the School

Bajothang Higher Secondary School was formally established as a Junior High School. It was officially inaugurated on 10th April 1997 by the then Hon’ble Secretary, Minstry of Health and Education, Dasho Sangay Ngedup. Mr. Rabgay Tobden was the first Headmaster with 12 teachers. The school has been upgraded to Higher Secondary School in March 2003 and the first batch of ISC (Class XII) passed out in December 2004. The school is located besides the silent Punatshangchu which flows at a stone throw distance from the main school buildings. It is about less than half a kilometer from the new Wangdi town-ship under Tedtsho geog.

The school has a total land area of 8 acres of which two acres are reserved for Agricultural activities just below the football ground. The school consists of one administrative block, three hostel blocks, four classroom blocks, a kitchen cum store block, a multipurpose hall with a Choesum (Alter) installed and consecrated in the beginning of 2003. The others are one Principal’s residential quarter; one care taker’s residential quarter, two old double storied buildings for cooks’ quarters and other one housing the Stores for agriculture, stationeries, games, house wiring and carpentry shed. A new Science, Library cum Computer block has been recently added to the campus. The school has a standard football ground, a basketball court and two volleyball courts. The school also has a piggery and poultry sheds constructed with the support of the Ministry of Agriculture under the school agriculture programme.

The school till now is of beneficiary not only to the local children but from other parts of this Dzongkhag earlier for boarding students to complete class IX & X. However, boarding facilities for classes IX & X has been phased out but retained the boarding facilities for classes XI & XII being the only higher secondary school in the Dzongkhag. It also renders hostel facilities to children from other Dzongkhags which lack boarding facilities. The school is assisted by World Food Programme (WFP). The school in particular has helped the Wangdue community in making their children able to be useful for themselves besides its efforts to make them life long learners. The MPH is being used frequently by the community of the gewog and the Dzongkhag Administration.

The water supply is one of the pressing problems faced by the school due to improper water pipe lining and lack of tap stands. The school has long term plans to construct basketball court for girls, extension of the fencing and black topping of parking area. The school also aims at consolidating and taking up major renovation and re-electrification works on all the existing structures if budget provisions are available.