The Aga Khan School Dhaka was formed back in 1988, in the library of the Ismaili Tariqah and Religious Education Board (ITREB) an institution of the Aga Khan Education Service, Bangladesh. The foundations of the present system were laid by Sir Sultan Mohamed Shah, Aga Khan III, under whose guidance over 200 schools were established during the first half of the 20th century, the first of them in 1905 in Zanzibar, Gwadur in Pakistan and Mundra in India. Since the creation of Aga Khan Education Service companies in the 1970s, the schools have been centrally administered and managed. The school started with 25 students and 7 teaching staff, occupying classes IX to XII.