Overview
Promoted in 1991 by the Delhi Public School Education Society, Delhi Public School Vasant Kunj is a co-educational English medium school affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), New Delhi. The school started its afternoon shift in Delhi Public School Vasant Vihar premises and moved to the present campus in Vasant Kunj in 1994.
DPS Vasant Kunj boasts a student strength of 4000 and faculty strength of 208.
The school is consistently ranked among the top 50 schools in India by several publications. It maintains a healthy teacher student ratio of 1:20.
Campus
DPS Vasant Kunj is sited on a sprawling 10 acre campus which hosts three libraries with an exhaustive collection of books, CDs and DVDs, separate laboratories for computer, science, math and fashion technology lab, spacious classrooms equipped with Educomp Smart Boards, and a well-equipped clinic with qualified doctors and nurses on duty. The school offers robust transport facility for the students.
Accomodation
DPS Vasant Kunj offers hostel facility to students from class VI to class XII. Besides providing a clean ambience, the hostel also offers facilities for academic assistance. The hostel mess provides balanced and healthy diet.
Academics
The school is affiliated with CBSE and offers a common curriculum upto grade X along with an option of a foreign language. In grades XI and XII it offers a choice of three streams – Science, Commerce and Humanities. The school has implemented the scheme of Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) which envisages that every learner is to be assessed over the entire period of the learning schedule. Students can choose between French, German and Sanskrit as third language.
Extra-curricular: The school encourages a variety of co-curricular activities such as art, music, dance, science club, geography club, literary club, physical and health education. Students are offered facilities for sports such as basket ball, football, tennis, cricket, swimming, volleyball and karate. The quiz club participates in inter-school and inter-zonal tournaments across the country.
Admission
Application forms can be downloaded from the school website. The minimum age for admission to pre-nursery is 3 plus. 25 percent seats are reserved for the Economically Weaker Section (EWS). Admission enquiries are entertained in the first week of April. Candidates seeking admission from class I to IX need to write an entrance test. Selected candidates need to appear for an interview with the principal. No admission is granted in classes X and XII.
Fees: The first installment of Rs 25,000 needs to be paid during admission. For boarders, a demand draft of Rs 70,000 also needs to be submitted towards hostel fees and charges.
Achievements
The school is consistently ranked among the top 50 schools in India by several publications. It maintains a healthy teacher student ratio of 1:20.