 Nevertheless, Kedah State Government has opened a modern Islamic school in Gurun in the 1970s which emulated the successful Maktab Mahmud in Alor Setar.The school which originally located nearby to Gurun Magistrate Court was later moved to the south of Gurun town, its present location.Before the liberation of Malaysian education in the 1990s, Gurun has its own private school known as Akademi Langkasuka.