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Delhi Public School Mathura Road

Co- educational, CBSE affiliated, points based admission

The Delhi Public School Mathura Road was the first school set up by what is now called the DPS Society. For decades the term DPS was synonymous with DPS Mathura Road. The school had its beginnings as an institution called the Church High School set up in the President's Estate in 1941. It was rechristened as the Naveen Bharat School when it moved to North Avenue in 1947. The school moved to its current location in 1949 and initially functioned out of tents. Dr. Radhakrishnan, then Vice- President of India, laid the foundation stone of the school building in 1956. The school now occupies a lush fifteen-acre complex and counts a long list of luminaries as its alumni.

Delhi Public School
Mathura Road
New Delhi 110003
Telephone- 43312030
Fax- 24359638
e-mail: mainoffice@dpsmathuraroad.org
Website: www.dpsmathuraroad.org

The DPS Mathura Road campus is split into infant, junior and senior wings. The campus houses a wide range of facilities such as workshops, science laboratories, computer & multi- media laboratories, libraries, audio- video lecture rooms and multi- purpose halls. On the extra- curricular front the school has an open air theatre and music & dance rooms. On the sports front the school has swimming pools, a gym, playing fields and squash courts. Other facilities include a clinic, canteen and hostel.

The admissions made in 2023- 2024 were to the Nursery i.e. Pre- School Class. Admission was restricted to children born between 02/03/2019 and 30/04/2020. The total number of seats available was 260 with the breakup being as follows- General Category- 130, EWS- 65, Management Quota- 52 and Staff Quota- 13.

The school adopted the following timeline in 2023-2024

Online Registration	01/12/2022- 23/12/2022
Form Submission By	23/12/2022
First List	20/01/2023
Second List	06/02/2023
Third List	01/03/2023

The school uses a point-based system for admissions. The criteria and their weightages are as below

Neighborhood	70 points. Candidates residing within 10 km of the school get 70 points while those residing between 10 and 12 km from the school get 60 points.
Siblings	15 points. Applicants are given 15 points if a real brother or sister is already studying in the school.
Alumni	15 points. The candidate is given 15 points if either parent is an alumnus of the school.
Total	100 points.

The school requires that successful applicants produce the following documents.

Address Proof	The school requires any one of the following- Election Card/ Passport/ Electricity Bill/ MTNL Bill/ Aadhar Card or Registered Lease Deed.
Date of Birth	Original Birth Certificate issued by the Registrar of Births or equivalent. The name of the child must be endorsed in the Birth certificate and duly countersigned by the Registrar of Births.
Sibling Proof	The school requires the following- Identity Card/ Latest Fee Receipt of sibling.
Alumni Proof	The school requires the following- School Leaving Certificate/ Senior Secondary or Secondary Board Certificate stating the name of the school.

The school received 2074 applications in 2023-2024 and published the points scored by each applicant. The cutoff for admission was at 70 points. .

The top scoring students in each category in 2022- 2023 were as follows- Science- 98.6%; Commerce- 96.6%; Humanities- 98%.

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