Alborz High School (in Persian:دبیرستان البرز), is a college preparatory high school located in the heart of Tehran, Iran. It is one of the first modern high schools in Asia and Middle East, built by Americans, named after the Alborz mountain range north of Tehran.
Its place in the shaping of Iran's intellectual elite compares with that of Eton College in England and Phillips Academy in the United States.
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