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student body became over 1,100; Most of the students were children of the Iraqi elite. Historically about 20% of the students received scholarships. About half of the students were
Muslims and half were Christians; Jews were also students. Baghdad College's pupils included Iraqis, Armenians, Egyptians, Iranians, Palestinians, and Syrians.
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Students can only enroll during the first year of study as students who wants to transfer are usually deemed as below the standards of the school, specially in their
English language skills as the majority of the subjects taught in the school are taught in the English language. Students who wants to
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stated that at the time it was
Baghdad's "premier high school." Soon after its founding the teaching staff included 33 Jesuits and 31 Iraqi lay teachers. Some of the Jesuits were fluent in the Arabic language, and others had established Arabic classes to try to teach themselves the language. The
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and is arguably Iraq's most famous secondary school for boys, having produced an Iraqi prime minister, a deputy prime minister, a vice president, two dollar billionaires and a member of the
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enroll are required to have accumulated a minimum of 475 marks, and go through few tests in (IQ, Science, Math, Arabic language and
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from Boston. The 1969 Iraqi government nationalization and expulsion of Jesuit teachers changed the character of the school. It has been compared in the
British media to
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was "An Iraqi School for Iraqi Boys". The school was initially located in ten buildings, located at 11/45 Murabba'ah Street in
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same name of the majestic Baghdad college, and all are considered part of the distinguished students high schools in the ministry of education.
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requested the establishment of a Catholic school in Baghdad to serve the Muslim population there, and the church sent four
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