History

Adarsh Vidya Kendra was established in 1984 at Vetturnimadam, Nagercoil

Nagercoil

Nagercoil is the 12th largest city in the southernmost Indian state of Tamil Nadu and a municipality and administrative headquarters of Kanyakumari District...

. The school was started with staff consisting of a headmaster and seven teachers( How many of them are still with the school needs to be added) and with 112 students on the roll. Increase in pupil numbers resulted in expansion of the school and additional classrooms were built in 1992.

The building

The structure consists of the Technical Building, Laboratory Annex, and Auditorium. In the summer of 2007 new windows were added to the entire building. At the end of the 2007/08 school year the high school received new iMac

IMac

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s in every computer lab. In addition, projectors and touch sensitive white boards have been added to most classrooms.

School day

The school day consists of 8 periods ranging from 30 to 35 minutes. Junior high students have a closed lunch period between 3rd and 4th hours while grades 9-12 enjoy an open lunch after 4th hour. The school toilets have been reported to be good and managed.
newly,asip programmes have been started.school timings are from 8:30 a.m to 2:45 p.m.

Ofsted Report

The latest Ofsted assessment of the school includes the summary:

"The inspection team agree with the school that Adarsh Vidya Kendra is an effective school which provides good value for money"

Houses

There are four houses at Adasrh Vidya Kendra:

• Pallava
• Gupta
• Pandya
• Maurya

All of the houses are named after the great kings of India.