Dharmaraja College (Sinhala: ධර්මරාජ විද්යාලය), founded in 1887, is a boys' school in Kandy, Sri Lanka.[1][2][3][4] It is a Buddhist school with around 300+ teaching staff and over 5,000 students.[5] The school has many notable alumni (a.k.a. Rajans) including the first President of Sri Lanka William Gopallawa, A. E. Goonesinha, T.B Kehelgamuwa, Chamara Kapugedera, Sudarshana Pathirana and others.
A land area of 220,000 square metres (54 acres) is owned by the school spreading over half of the Dharmaraja hill.[6] Dharmaraja has one of the oldest scout troops in the world, the 1st Kandy Dharmaraja Scout Group, which was established in 1913.[7][8][9] It is one of the first Sri Lankan schools to start playing cricket.[5][10] It has consistently ranked among the first two boys schools in Sri Lanka in the preference rankings based on year 5 scholarship examinees' demand.[11][12][13]
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