Tigris Secondary School for Girls

Tigris Secondary School for Girls

The Tigris Secondary School for Girls is a prestigious convent-style girls' school in the Alawaya district of Baghdad, Iraq. It has some 900 students aged 13-17.

After the 2003 Invasion of Iraq . Former headmistress Sister Clara, who had been removed by the Iraqi Ministry of Education in 1999, due to her liability in private tutoring (al-tadrees al-khusosi) which was forbidden in the educational system of Iraq before the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, was able to return to her post.

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