The Defence Services College is a National school established on 17 January 2007 for the children of military and police personnel, within the refurbished '' Rifle Barracks'' building built in 1860 as part of the regimental headquarters of the

Ceylon Rifle Regiment The Ceylon Rifle Regiment (CRR) was a regular native regiment formed by the United Kingdom, British in Ceylon. Its history goes back to 1795. The nucleus of the Regiment was two companies of Malays recruited from among prisoners at St Helena. In ...

at Rifle Green,

Slave Island Slave Island, officially known as Kompagngna Veediya (; ), also known as Kampong Kertel and Kompanna Veediya and formerly known as Javanam Quarters (Javanese Quarter) during Dutch rule, is a suburb in Colombo, Sri Lanka, located directly south of ...

Colombo Colombo, ( ; , ; , ), is the executive and judicial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka by population. The Colombo metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of 5.6 million, and 752,993 within the municipal limits. It is the ...

.This college with a majestic look which in enclosure of 4.5 hectares in Malay Street, Colombo 02, was mainly established to ease the challenges encountered by the tri-forces and police personals with the regards to the admissions of their children to popular schools . The school was opened by then President Honorable Mahinda Rajapaksha . Even though this School falls under the category of semi-government , the management of the school is under the Ministry of Education while the administrative part is conducted by the Ministry of Defence.

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