History of phutentsholing Higher Secondary School

Phuentsholing Higher Secondary School was established in 1983 with 200 students and 9 teachers including head teacher, when the primary school (established in 1961)

in the heart of the town could no longer accommodate rapidly growing population of the students. It started as a junior school form class IV to VIII.

In the year 2000 Dasho Zangley Drulpa, then Chukha Dzongda inaugurated and formally upgraded the school to a High School.

In 2003, the school was further upgraded to a Higher Secondary School offering Class XI & XII. In 2004 the first batch of the class XII students graduated with 100% result.

In the year 2009, 2012 and 2013 the school was awarded top ten school certificate. In the year 2014 a class ten student topped whole bhutan third position and also the school was recipient of Golden Youth award in same year.