D.A.V. Boys Senior Secondary School
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D.A.V. Boys Senior Secondary School is a secondary school
located in Gopalapuram, India
. It is affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education
. The school is noted for its high results in the CBSE Class 12 Board Exams. The magazines Outlook
and Education World rated the school as the best in Tamil Nadu
.
. It is flanked by sister institutions D.A.V. Matric School and D.A.V. Girls School.
, Social Science, Mathematics
, English
, and Language
. Choices for Language are Tamil
, Hindi
and Sanskrit
.
Apart from this Computer Science
, Third Language, Electrical Gadgets, WoodWork, Art are also compulsory for students till class 8.
Great emphasis is laid on all round development of personality. The school is renowned for the discipline and values it inculcates in the students.Havans, performed by students, are conducted every week. Moral Instruction classes are given great importance with special prizes for students excelling in M.I.
was started by Arya Samaj
with the motto of "Lead us from darkness unto light". Late Mr. Bajaj and Late Mr. Goenka were the founder heads of the school. Currently Shri Ravi Malhotra is incumbent President of the Board Of Management. The current Principal is Mrs.Geetha Balachander who replaced Dr.C.Sathish in 2009.
The school has a long history of academic excellence. It has produced toppers in CBSE 10th and 12th standard exams as well as the prestigious AIEEE, BITSAT and IITJEE exams year after year.A Thiagarajan (JEE-2001 AIR 1) and P.N. Bhargav who represented India in the IPhO (Gold) and IMO (Hon Mention) res. are alums of this school.
It is common for students to participate in community service, particularly after the devastating tsunami of 2004. The school is noted to have adopted certain villages where the NCC and the Boy Scouts help rehabilitate victims.
Education World magazine ranked the school fourth in the country in the year 2010.
Secondary school
Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...
located in Gopalapuram, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. It is affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education
Central Board of Secondary Education
The Central Board of Secondary Education is a Board of Education for public and private schools, under the Union Government of India.-History:...
. The school is noted for its high results in the CBSE Class 12 Board Exams. The magazines Outlook
Outlook (magazine)
Outlook is one of India's four top-selling English weekly newsmagazines. Like many other Indian magazines, it is reluctant to reveal its circulation, but the 2007 National Readership Survey suggested 1.5 million copies...
and Education World rated the school as the best in Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...
.
Location
The school is located in Lloyds Road(Avvai Shanmugham Salai). It is very close to the Gopalapuram residence of a former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu M. KarunanidhiM. Karunanidhi
Muthuvel Karunanidhi is an Indian politician and a former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. He is the head of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam , a Dravidian political party in the state of Tamil Nadu. He has been the leader of the DMK since the death of its founder, C. N...
. It is flanked by sister institutions D.A.V. Matric School and D.A.V. Girls School.
Curriculum
D.A.V. Boys Gopalapuram follows strictly the CBSE curriculum from 6th standard onwards. The average strength of a class is 40. Till class ten, the main subjects taught are ScienceScience
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
, Social Science, Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
, English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, and Language
Language
Language may refer either to the specifically human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, or to a specific instance of such a system of complex communication...
. Choices for Language are Tamil
Tamil language
Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Pondicherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore...
, Hindi
Hindi
Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...
and Sanskrit
Sanskrit
Sanskrit , is a historical Indo-Aryan language and the primary liturgical language of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.Buddhism: besides Pali, see Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Today, it is listed as one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and is an official language of the state of Uttarakhand...
.
Apart from this Computer Science
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
, Third Language, Electrical Gadgets, WoodWork, Art are also compulsory for students till class 8.
Great emphasis is laid on all round development of personality. The school is renowned for the discipline and values it inculcates in the students.Havans, performed by students, are conducted every week. Moral Instruction classes are given great importance with special prizes for students excelling in M.I.
History
The school D.A.V. (Dayanand Anglo-Vedic schools system)Dayanand Anglo-Vedic Schools System
The Dayanand Anglo-Vedic Schools System, also familiarly known as the D.A.V. Public Schools System is the single largest non-governmental education society in India . It is based on the ideals of the religious and social reformer, Swami Dayanand Saraswati...
was started by Arya Samaj
Arya Samaj
Arya Samaj is a Hindu reform movement founded by Swami Dayananda on 10 April 1875. He was a sannyasi who believed in the infallible authority of the Vedas. Dayananda emphasized the ideals of brahmacharya...
with the motto of "Lead us from darkness unto light". Late Mr. Bajaj and Late Mr. Goenka were the founder heads of the school. Currently Shri Ravi Malhotra is incumbent President of the Board Of Management. The current Principal is Mrs.Geetha Balachander who replaced Dr.C.Sathish in 2009.
The school has a long history of academic excellence. It has produced toppers in CBSE 10th and 12th standard exams as well as the prestigious AIEEE, BITSAT and IITJEE exams year after year.A Thiagarajan (JEE-2001 AIR 1) and P.N. Bhargav who represented India in the IPhO (Gold) and IMO (Hon Mention) res. are alums of this school.
It is common for students to participate in community service, particularly after the devastating tsunami of 2004. The school is noted to have adopted certain villages where the NCC and the Boy Scouts help rehabilitate victims.
Education World magazine ranked the school fourth in the country in the year 2010.