[1] It was established on the bank of the old Brahmaputra River in the garden of Maharaja Surjya Kanta Acharjya.

In 1879, Surya Kanta Acharjya of the Muktagacha zamindar family built a house known as Alexander Castle or Lohar Kuthir on 27.50 acres in Mymensingh.

The house became the home of Teachers Training College and an "Experimental School" on 15 November, 1948.

Advertisements of AAGLHS's functions are published through the national dailies and its website www.mgovlab.edu.bd and Facebook pages.

Students decorate their classes with balloons, posters, pictures, and colored paper, and they publish wall magazines containing their own stories and poems, which teachers and guardians come to admire.

There are some clubs and organizations to help co-curricular activities: Bangladesh National Cadet Corps (BNCC), Scouting and Red Crescent.