According to the GCE A/L 2012 results, Sheshani Dilupamala Gunathilake from Devi
Balika Vidyalaya, Colombo is the island first from Commerce Stream.
Devi Balika Vidyalaya is a leading
girls’ school in Colombo. Today there are over 2500 students and those girls
students are admitted at level of grade six, on the results of an island-wide
scholarship examination. Mrs. Pradeepa Samarasinghe is the present Principal.
Dedicated to the
vision of providing society with scholars who are disciplined, educated,
versatile and impeccable, Devi Balika Vidyalaya has proven to be an institution
with a difference. On the
15th of January 1953, a girls’ school was founded in Colombo 08 by Deshabandhu
Dr. Mrs. Wimala de Silva. Devi Balika Vidyalaya, celebrating its 60th
anniversary this year, has risen to become one of the leading girls’ schools in
Sri Lanka.
