President's College, Minuwangoda


President's College - Minuwangoda was founded on 9 February 1979 in Minuwangoda.
It is a public college in Sri Lanka. It was founded in 1979 by the Bennet Gunasekara.
The first batch of students were admitted to the school in 1979. There were 225 students. Including the Principal, there were 6 teachers at the time the college started.
The college was upgraded as 1A mix school on 1 September 1979. The first batch of students sat for G.C.E Ordinary Level Exam in 1983.

Admission policy

President’s College conducts classes from Year 6 to Year 13 and has usually admit 200 pupils onto Year 6. To be able to seek admission onto President’s college, student must sit a Year 5 National Scholarship exam conducted by the Department of Education of Sri Lanka and score marks at a cut-off level or above. The College has a strict admission policy which allow only pupils who score higher marks at the National Scholarship exams to enter to Year 6. Currently there are about 1,900 pupils studying at the school.

Administration

The school is managed by a Principal with the assistance of two Deputy Principals, Assistant Principals, Year Group Leaders, 80 teaching staff, non-academic Staff, the School Development Board and Working Committee members of the Past Pupils Association. It is state owned and funded by the national government and provincial council.