Sri Jayawardenapura Zonal Education Office

This office is within the city of Sri Jayawardhnapura Kotte, the administrative capital of Sri Lanka. Its exact location is at Ganehena Junction in Robert Gunawardhana Mawatha along the Battaramulla-Kaduwela Road and adjoining the Sri Suboothi National School. It is one of the 11 educational zones in Western Province., covering an area of 174 Square km’s comprising four Secretarial Divisions of Kaduwala , Kolonnawa Maharagama and NugegodaThis building was opened by the former Hon Minister of Education, late Mr. Within this zone, there are 89 Sinhala medium schools.Out of that there are 2 Tamil medium schools, 9 private schools and 13 Pirivena (Buddhist temple schools ) comprising 94,137 students and 4,092 teachers. There are 13 “Navodya “ Schools and 1 “Isuru” Schools.Within these schools there are 21 Bilingual Language Schools where Science , Math, ICT, and History subjects are studying in English Medium. There are 5 Zonal ICT Education Centres,43 School ICT Education Centes and One Provincial ICT Education Centre. The educational standard of this zone is advanced, and is considered to be the second highest within the Western Province.