Sanghamitta Balika Vidyalaya (also called: Sanghamitta Girls’ College) is a Buddhist girls’ school in Galle, Sri Lanka. It is a national school, which provides primary and secondary education. The school was established in 1919, as the first Buddhist Girls School in Southern province of Sri Lanka.[citation needed] Francis Amarasiri Wickramasinghe Muhandiram was the founder of Sanghamitta Balika Vidyalaya. Today it is a leading girls school in Southern Sri Lanka and accommodates over 5,000 students.