Established 1 September 1965 School fees 2,400 INR Founded 1 September 1965 | Chairman AVM M K Malik VSM Number of students 2,863 Student to teacher ratio 21 | |
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Motto Tattvaṃ Pūṣanapāvṛṇu Sanskrit: तत्त्वं पूषनपावृणु("The face of Truth is covered by a golden vessel, Remove Thou, O Sun, that covering, for the law of Truth to behold.") Authority Sports Football, Cricket, Volleyball, Basketball, Handball, Table tennis, Throwball, Hockey, Kabaddi, Kho kho School boards Central Board of Secondary Education, Kendriya Vidyalaya | ||
Kendriya Vidyalaya Hebbal (Hindi: केन्द्रीय विद्यालय हेब्बाल,बंगलौर), is a school in Bangalore and part of the Kendriya Vidyalayas in India. It was started in 1965. The school is affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education.
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The school has classes from I to XII with an enrollment of 2800. It has maintained a 100% pass percentage record in class X for seven consecutive years.
Apart from academics, the school encourages students to participate in extra-curricular activities, competitions and games and sports events organized by the KV Sangathan and other schools at national level.
KVH is also one of the few schools in India to get accredited by the Quality Council of India (QCI) and the National Accreditation Board for Education and Training (NABET). It has signed an MoU with QCI for promoting quality education in Kendriya Vidyalayas across India.
Campus
The school won the Lal Bagh Botanical Garden award for the best garden for six consecutive years. There are trees and flowering plants all around the campus. The main building of the school is a large open-centered pentagon. At the center of the pentagon is an assembly ground.
Rain water harvesting is practiced in campus. The campus has staff quarters and a play area to accommodate the faculty and their families.
KVH is one of the few chosen Kendriya Vidyalayas to have upgraded to E-Classroom and e-Learning teaching process with the implementation of Smart Boards in the classrooms.
Faculty
The school has 73 teaching staff members, in three categories: post-graduate teachers (PGTs), trained graduate teachers (TGTs) and primary teachers (PRTs).
Student activities
The school encourages the students to take part in national level competitions and examinations to increase their exposure and also conducts workshops to update the students with information in the fields of Science, Humanities and Commerce.
A few student activities are listed below :
For CCA activities and house contests,the students are placed into four houses: Shivaji (red), Tagore (green), Ashoka (yellow) and Raman (blue). Earlier, there used to be five houses, the fifth one being Subhash with house colour orange. Rajveer choudhary revived gold medal from TATVA PSA
Campus learning aids and facilities
Campus learning facilities are listed below :
Sports activities
The school organises a sports day annually in which the Houses take part in intra-school sports events. The school has won many trophies in Football, Cricket, Athletics and other games at the regional and national levels.
The school consists of three Children Parks which provide recreation to the primary students.
KVH is equipped with sports facilities which are shown in the table below :
Alumni
The school has an alumni association that meets annually in the school campus on the eve of the Indian Independence Day.
Notable alumni include Tanush Jagdish, who now conducts research in the lab group of MacArthur Genius and National Academy of Science fellow Richard Lenski.