Baghdad High School for Girls ( ar, إعدادية بغداد للبنات) is a

girls' school Single-sex education, also known as single-gender education and gender-isolated education, is the practice of conducting education with male and female students attending separate classes, perhaps in separate buildings or schools. The practice of ...

in Mansour,

Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

Characteristics of the school

In 2004, a reporter visiting the school said that most of the girls attending were daughters of government officials and wealthy, prominent people.Asquith, Christina.
A Day at Baghdad’s Elite Girls’ High School

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. '' Education Views''. February 24, 2004. Retrieved on 6 May 2015. The reporter said that fewer than half of the girls at the school wore

hijabs In modern usage, hijab ( ar, حجاب, translit=ḥijāb, ) generally refers to headcoverings worn by Muslim women. Many Muslims believe it is obligatory for every female Muslim who has reached the age of puberty to wear a head covering. While s ...

and that the school was like an Iraqi equivalent of ''

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'' and " Beverly Hills High 90210". She noted that 98% of pupils continue to university, mostly to study medicine, engineering, science and technology.

Notable former pupils

Nada Shabout Nada M. Shabout (born 8 January 1962, Glasgow, Scotland) is an American art historian specializing in modern Iraqi art. She has been a professor of art history at the University of North Texas since 2002. She is the president and co-founding boa ...

, art historian

References

Girls' schools in Iraq Schools in Baghdad Educational institutions established in 1925 1920s establishments in Iraq {{Iraq-school-stub