Alighar National School is a leading and popular school in the Batticaloa District in the East. Around 1800 students learn at the school. They learn from grade 6 to 13. In A/L there are Arts, Commerce, and Science students enter the Universities each year to all the faculties including Medicine, Engineering and other fields. Students excel in curricular and extra curricular activities. Achieved first place in the Results of GCE. O/L examination among Tamil medium schools in 2005. Because Third in the same examination in 2006. Admission to Universities on merit passes, at GCE A/l Examinations