[1][2] It is located near Damphu Town, the administrative centre of Tsirang district.Damphu Central School was founded around 1951.

It became the first school to introduce the biometrics system in the country, using the fingerprints of the employees to record their time and attendance.

[7] The school ranked top 9 in the BCSE exam in the year 2018 in class twelve category.

[8] In 2018, Tsirang Dzongkhag Court ordered the principal of Damphu Central School, Dawa Tshering, to pay nine months salary to the school’s cook, Harka Bahadur Subba, who went missing in Bangkok in the year 2017.

The court also ordered that the cook should be reinstated but the principal denied the allegation.