DAV School, Adambakkam

D.A.V. School, Adambakkam
Asato Maa Sadgamaya (sanskrit)
Location
India
Information
Type	Private
Grades	Class 1–12
Affiliation	CBSE/Tamilnadu Education Board

DAV School is a CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education) affiliated school in Adambakkam, Chennai, India.

DAV School is located in Nilamangai Nagar, Adambakkam. It is has high rankings in 10th and 12th classes.^{[citation needed]} It has branches at Meenambakkam and Kancheepuram. It has a college granting Bachelor of Education degrees at Santhavellore village near Sunguvarchattiram in Kancheepuram. This school is also considered one of the best schools in Adambakkam, Ullagaram, Madipakkam and Nanganallur.

D.A.V. School, also known as Dayananda Anglo Vedic School is owned by Mr. Varadarajan and his son, Mr.Rajendran is the principal of D.A.V. Senior School. His wife and also the principal of this school is Mrs.J.Geetha and their educational advisor is T.K.Shanthama(Former Principal of this school). Mr. Varadarajan's other sons are taking care of the other schools and colleges that they own.

Some notable teachers of this school are Mrs.Pramila, Mrs.Veena Iyer, Mrs.Sheeja, Mrs.S.Latha, Mrs. Srivijaya, Mrs.M.Usha, Mrs.V.Muthulakshmi, Mrs.Bhoodevi, Mrs.Sripriya, Mrs.Bhuvaneshwari, Mrs.Manjushree, Mrs.Sheeja, Mrs.N.N.Jayashree, Mrs.Swarnam, Mrs.Rajeshwari, Mrs.Deepa Gopalan, Mrs.K.P.Kalpana, Mrs. Saraswathi Kannan, Mrs.D.S.Shanthi, Mrs.A.Deepa, Mrs.Komali, Mrs.K.Suganya, Mrs.R.Suganya, Mrs.Uma Maheshwari, Mrs.Usha Jayanthi, Mrs.Jamuna, Mrs.

This school also has a choir that is organized by Mrs.Hemamalini Nandakumar and other teachers like Mrs.Mythili and Mrs.Gandhimathi. She has more than 100 students in her class and they win a lot of awards every year.

DAV School has more than 2000 students and about 250 teachers. The school's extra-curricular activities include:

• Carnatic Music (Vocal)
• Keyboard (Piano)
• Chess
• Karate
• Yoga
• Cricket
• Basketball
• Table tennis
• Soccer
• Volleyball

The school starts at 8:30AM and ends at 3:45PM with a lunch break that is for an hour.

The school has two air-conditioned computer science labs, one with 40 computers and the other with 32 computers. The school also has an LCD television in every kindergarten classes.

Merits

• 100% pass rates, with nearly 90% of them getting above 80% in their results.
• The school has been a constant first prize winner in the Bharat Vikas Music Competition since 2005.
• 1st highest ranker in educational stream.
• Constant meriter in training for vocational skills.
• The district level music competition winner conducted by 'Bharat Vikas Parishad' for year 2010.

Summative assessments for class IX and X

The school tests the students' knowledge of class IX and X by choosing the advanced level set of question papers i.e., (A1, A2 and B1) range of question papers only.

Formative assessments for classes IX and X

Though the formative assessment question papers are set by the school itself, the school makes these question papers from a combination of 5–6 reference text books, which makes the tests tough but also makes the students prepared for all the complex questions they may get in summative tests.

References

• The Indian Education Daily