Delhi Public School Vasant Kunj
| Delhi Public School | |
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| Address | |
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Vasant Kunj, Sector C, Pocket 5 New Delhi India |
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| Coordinates | 28°32′15″N 77°08′54″E / 28.5375°N 77.1484°ECoordinates: 28°32′15″N 77°08′54″E / 28.5375°N 77.1484°E |
| Information | |
| Type | CBSE |
| Motto | Service Before Self |
| Established | 1991 |
| Chairman | Rear Admiral M.M. Chopra |
| Principal | Bindu Sehgal |
| Faculty | Full time |
| Color(s) | White, green |
| Nickname | "Dipsites" |
| Affiliations | Central Board of Secondary Education |
| Website | www |
Delhi Public School, Vasant Kunj (DPS Vasant Kunj or DPS VK) is a school located in Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, India. DPS Vasant Kunj offers academic services from Kindergarten through Grade XII. The school has a combined strength of 205 teachers at the senior and junior level, and an enrollment of four thousand students.
The students in the school are divided into six houses:
Delhi Public School, Vasant Kunj, was established in 1991 by the Delhi Public School Society under the leadership of Vinay Kumar, running its afternoon shift in DPS Vasant Vihar. The school moved to its present campus in Vasant Kunj in 1994.
Delhi Public School Vasant Kunj is affiliated with the Central Board for Secondary Education (CBSE). The school offers a common curriculum up to Grade 10, along with the option of foreign language. In Grade 11 and Grade 12, the school requires students to choose one of three 5-subject streams: Science (with Computer Science or Economics or Biology or Psychology or Informative Practices or Fashion Studies), Commerce, or Humanities.
The school is considered among the top schools in India, always ranked within the top 50 by several publications.
Under the aegis of the DPS Society, the Council for Environmental Education for Children (colloquially CEEC or Environment Council) was formed at the school in 1994. Today, the CEEC has more than 100 members. Students have participated in activities with organizations such as The Energy and Resources Institute, World Wildlife Fund, Development Alternatives and Kids for Tigers. The council conducts air-monitoring and water-monitoring workshops annually and has banned the use of plastic bags in school. A team from the Council also participated in the 'Greening with Goethe' Environment Conference, Bangalore in December 2011, where it received a commendation from the group of scientists from both Germany and India.
The school's dramatics club "Rubaru" was established in 2010 and has 30 members who have won more than 50 events in different parts of India.
Grey Matters, the DPS Vasant Kunj's quiz club, was established in 2006 and has won several quizzes - Quiz Thailand, Mod Quizebate, Japan Quiz, Columban Open Quiz, and Bournvita Quiz Contest chief among them. Grey Matters organises its own eponymous interschool quiz competition.
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