D.A.V. Public School, Chandrasekharpur

DAV Public School, Chandrasekharpur

Motto	"Work is Worship"
Established	1989
Type	Primary School, High School
Principal	Dr. Keshaba Chandra Satapathy
Location	Sailashree Vihar Bhubaneswar 751021 India
Students	3200
Gender	Male / Female
Ages	3–18
Houses	Apalla, Maitreyi, Gargi, Sikata
Website	www.davcsp.org

D.A.V. Public School, Chandrasekharpur is a public school in Chandrasekharpur in the state of Orissa, India located in Sailashree Vihar, Chandrasekharpur - a residential township in the northern part of the temple city of Bhubaneswar. Established on 4 August 1989, D.A.V. Public School, Chandrasekharpur began with only 90 students and 17 staff members. It grew and now has 3200 students and 179 staff members.^[1]

History

Dr. Keshaba Chandra Satapathy, the Principal of the school, has been honoured with several awards for his contributions to the school and education in the shape of 1996 “Mahatma Hans Raj Award” by DAV College Managing Committee, Delhi, in 1998 by Governor of Orissa for encouraging Scout Movement in the State, in 1999 honoured by the Chief Minister of Orissa for encouraging Community Development., in 2003 “Jana Swikriti Samman” for the holistic approach towards growth of integral education & successful conduction of 7th CBSE National Athletic Meet’02, in 2004 Received the “State Level Computer Literacy Excellency Award-2003” instituted by Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Govt. of India for Popularizing the IT awareness in the state from His Excellency Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, the Hon’ble President of India, in 2005 Budh Ram Kaushaliya Devi Memorial Gold Medal Award by DAV College Managing Committee, New Delhi for his outstanding contribution to the field of education in 2006 Rajiv Gandhi Rashtriya Ekta Samman-2006 by All India National Unity Conference in commemoration with the 63rd Birth Anniversary of Late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, National Award to Teachers 2006 by the hon’ble president of India under the aegis of Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India. He has now been also appointed to the governing body of the Central Board for Secondary Education.^[2][3]

School Entrance.

The school has been placed in top bracket category in std.X & XII CBSE examinations and in Std.VIII DAV Common Board Examinations in the country over the years. For the Academic excellence, the school has been awarded with “PRIDE OF DAV” Laurels from DAV College Managing Committee, New Delhi for last 7 years consecutively.^[4]

House System

The students of Std. V to XII are divided into 4 houses Apalla, Gargi, Maitreyi and Sikata after the names of women sages. The nominated leaders from all Houses of Std. VII, VIII, IX and XI form the school cabinet which takes oath in the investiture Ceremony organized in the beginning of the session. The school cabinet comprises the school leader, asst. school leader, house leader, asst. house leader and house representatives . The nominated leaders lead the house to participate in curricular and co-curricular activities under the guidance of House Co-ordinator and house teachers. The best house is awarded at the end of academic session.^[5]

School Uniform

School assembly in uniform.

The students of the school are required to dress in a school uniform. The boys are required to dress in Beige half sleeve shirts, Brown colour pants(S.Kumar Shade No.290), Black laced shoe, and Beige socks with stripes. The girls are required to dress in Beige colour blouse, Green check tunic, Black buckled shoes, Beige socks with stripes, and White ribbon or band. In winter, a Brown colour V-neck sweater/cardigan with above uniforms may be worn. A Brown cap/scarf(if required) may also be worn additionally. On Fridays, a White uniform is usually required for the P.T. assembly and on Saturday, the house specific uniform needs to be used.

School day

A standard school day lasts 6 hours and 10 minutes from 10:30 am until 4:40 pm and comprises 8 teaching periods lasting 45 minutes each. However, kindergarten and college classes have different timings. ^[5]

Notable alumni

• pragyan ojha, popular Cricketer who has played for the Indian National Cricket Team and currently plays for Deccan Chargers in Indian Premier League
• padmini rout, Chess prodigy, women FIDE International Master, Gold Medalist at Commonwealth Games

School Academic Performance

The school has consistently produced outstanding results with nearly 100 % students securing first class every year in the Board examinations conducted by D.A.V for Std. VIII and by C.B.S.E for Std. X and Std. XII.

Highlights of these results are presented below.

C.B.S.E Class X

Year	Students Appeared	Students Passed	Pass %	1st Division	1st Division %	Topper	Topper %
1997	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Maranganti Ravi	Data Not Available
1998	86	86	100	81	94	Amar Kumar Behera	93.2 %
1999	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Amritamayee Sahoo	Data Not Available
2000	156	156	100	149	95.51	Ajit Kumar Behera	94.4 %
2001	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available
2002	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available
2003	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available
2004	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Sukanya Ray	95.8 %
2005	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Debabrat Mishra	96.6%
2006	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Subhankar Mohapatra	98.6 %
2007	303	303	100	297	98.2	Prashant A. Jayannavar	98.2
2008	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Jatadhari Mishra	97.4%
2009 [6]	284	284	100 %	279	98.24 %	Ananya Das	98.4 %
2010 [7]	278	277	99.64 %	268	96.40 %	Not applicable	Not applicable

C.B.S.E Class XII

Year	Students Appeared	Students Passed	Pass %	1st Division	1st Division %	Topper	Topper %
1999	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Maranganti Ravi	Data Not Available
2000	48	48	100	45	93.75	Amar Kumar Behera	87.8 %
2001	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available
2002	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available
2003	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available
2004	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available
2005	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available
2006	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available
2007 [8]	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	100	Data Not Available	100	Prateek Behera	96.6 %
2008	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Data Not Available	Soumyashant Nayak [9]	Data Not Available
2009 [10]	161	160	99.38 %	158	98.14 %	Ananya Behera, Pratyush Kumar Das	96.20 %
2010 [11]	176	176	100 %	176 [12]	100 %	Ankit Sahoo, Parthasarathi Tripathy [13]	96.6 %
2011	203	203	100 %	201	99 %	Anshuman Kamila	96.4 %

References

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9. ^ "12 KVPY from Orissa". Orissalinks.com. http://www.orissalinks.com/archives/category/k-12/cbse/dav-chandrasekharpur. Retrieved 2010-04-14. 
10. ^ "Highlights 12th Exam 2009". D.A.V. Public School (Chandrasekharpur). http://www.davcsp.org/highlights_12th_exam_2009.asp. Retrieved 2010-04-14. 
11. ^ "D.A.V. Public School (Chandrasekharpur)". Davcsp.org. 2009-06-23. http://www.davcsp.org/Highlight%20of%20Class%2012th.pdf. Retrieved 2010-06-23. 
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