Shams Central College is a public school located in

Maruthamunai December 2004 tsunami Maruthamunai was one of the villages most severely affected in Sri Lanka by the Indian Ocean tsunami on 26 December 2004. The disaster killed 922 residents of the village, displaced 11,086, 1,391 houses were completely ...

Eastern Province, Sri Lanka The Eastern Province ( ''Næ̆gĕnahira Paḷāta'' , ''Kiḻakku Mākāṇam'') is one of the nine provinces of Sri Lanka, the first level administrative division of the country. The provinces have existed since the 19th century but did not have ...

. The school provides both

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and

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from Grade 6 to Advanced Level, all streams including Arts, Commerce, Bio, Maths and Technical Streams.

History

The school started in 1959 as Karavahu East Government Muslim Mixed School with a Coconut Leafy cadjan hut classrooms with 114 students (Girls:49 and Boys 65) and 7 teachers. The first principal of the school was Marhoom Al Haj IMA. Kuthoos.

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Provincial schools in Sri Lanka Schools in Ampara District Maruthamunai {{SriLanka-school-stub

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