Sardar Patel Vidyalaya (SPV) is a co-educational day school affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), New Delhi. Sited at Lodi estate in New Delhi, the school was promoted in 1957 by the Gujarat Education Society and boasts an enrolment of 1,500 students from nursery to class XII.
The school is named after Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, one of the leaders of the Indian independence movement and independent India’s first Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister. The school is managed by a governing body comprising the president and the secretary of the Gujarat Education Society as well as the principal and manager of the school. It boasts faculty strength of 200.
The school boasts a serene campus situated at the heart of New Delhi in Lodi Estate, which offers all the modern facilities required to help the teaching learning process such as ventilated classrooms and modern laboratories for science and computers, and a well stocked library featuring a collection of 20,000 books and subscriptions to 25 periodicals and six newspapers. The school also offers a medical centre that conducts regular medical check up and keeps a record thereof.
The school canteen provides a variety of healthy and freshly cooked snacks and meals for the students.
An indoor games centre facilitates indoor sports and games such as badminton, table tennis, chess, judo-karate etc while the school ground caters to outdoor sports such as athletics, disc throw etc.
SPV is affiliated with CBSE and follows a bilingual medium of instruction. It is the only private school in India that uses Hindi as the medium of instruction at the primary level. English is the medium of instruction from class VI onwards and Hindi and Sanskrit are mandatory till class VIII. In class IX, students can choose between Hindi and Sanskrit. Students of class VI and VII has are offered a choice of four regional languages – Tamil, Gujarati, Urdu and Bengali – as the third language.
SPV has produced a number of Rhodes scholars. In 2006, for example, three of the five Indian Rhodes Scholars were alumni of SPV. In 2005, two of the six were SPV alumni.
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SPV promotes sports such as athletics, shot put, javelin throw, discus throw, high jump, long jump and triple jump and encourages music, public speaking, art, chess, theatre, and clay modelling, crafts, cooking, computers, gardening, and painting, quiz and poetry appreciation.
Anuradha Joshi (principal)
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SportsFor admission forms, eligibility criteria, admission procedure, fee structure and other details parents can consult the official school website or contact the school office during working days.
Sardar Patel Vidyalaya is ranked among the top 10 co-ed day schools in India by the EducationWorld India School Rankings 2021-22.
SPV has produced a number of Rhodes scholars. In 2006, for example, three of the five Indian Rhodes Scholars were alumni of SPV. In 2005, two of the six were SPV alumni.
Being a day school, Sardar Patel Vidyalaya does not provide accommodation facilities.
