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Applications for 2027–28 close on 31 July. Campus tours every Saturday.

CBSE Kindergarten to Class X · Est. 2018

Where a child is known by name.

A school of the Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco, in Thiruvottiyur — teaching through reason, faith and loving-kindness.

2018Founded
14+Grades
1:22Teacher ratio
100%CBSE-trained

Who we are

A neighbourhood school, two hundred years in the making.

Don Bosco taught that children learn best from adults who are visibly on their side. We have built a school on that.

In practice: our teachers are in the playground, not the staff room. A child who is struggling is noticed in week two, not at the term exam.

The main entrance of Our Lady School of Excellence, seen from the road
Students, teachers and parents gathered together on the school feast day
Feast day, and the whole school in one frame Students, teachers, parents and past pupils.

What we promise

Four commitments you can verify.

How we teach

Taught, not covered

Teachers move on when a class understands — even if the calendar disagrees.

Known by name

Class teachers meet weekly to talk about individual children, one by one.

Hands before screens

Science is done at a bench, not watched on a projector.

Service is coursework

Every student from Class V joins a community project each year.

Academics

Four stages, one arc.

The full curriculum
Ages 3–5
A kindergarten activity room, models and charts on every table

Kindergarten

Play is the curriculum. Sharing a table, naming a feeling, loving a story.

Play-basedPhonics
Classes I–V
The library, lined with bookcases around reading tables

Primary

Fluent reading and confident number sense, secured early.

LiteracyNumeracy
Classes VI–VIII
The chemistry laboratory, benches with sinks and glassware

Middle School

Holding a hypothesis, testing it, changing your mind gracefully.

Lab workDebate
Classes IX–X
The computer laboratory, a monitor at each partitioned desk

Secondary

Board preparation done honestly: mastery first, technique second.

CBSE BoardMentoring

From the Principal

“A school is judged by the child who needed it most.”

Take the anxious child, the child reading two years behind, the child nobody picked for the team — and send them out at sixteen upright, curious, and certain they are loved. That is the work.

PS
Sr. Dr. Peter Selvarani Principal
Sr. Dr. Peter Selvarani, Principal, at her desk in the school office

The campus

Rooms built for the work in them.

Every facility
The school block seen across the courtyard
The main blockAiry, cross-ventilated classrooms on three floors
The physics laboratory, apparatus in glass-fronted cupboards
Three science labsPhysics, Chemistry, Biology
The library, lined with bookcases around reading tables
Reading roomQuiet by design
The computer laboratory, a monitor at each partitioned desk
Computer labOne machine per student
Students marching past behind a "Courage" placard on sports day
The playgroundWhere the Preventive System actually happens
The school portico beneath the motto "God and Country"
Assembly & chapelWhere each morning begins
The music room, with keyboards, a guitar and drums
Music roomBand, keyboards, the Friday choir
The indoor games room, with carrom, chess and table tennis
Indoor gamesCarrom, chess, table tennis
A robotics display: printed models, drones and a robotic arm
Robotics & the exhibition roomWhere a term's work goes on show
The staff of Our Lady School of Excellence assembled in the school hall
The people who teach here Hired for a demonstration lesson with real children — not for a mock class.
2018Year founded
1:22Teacher–student ratio
14+Years of schooling
100%Teachers CBSE-trained

Figures reflect the 2026–27 academic year. Ratio calculated across Classes I–X.

The year, photographed

An ordinary year, as it happened.

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Voices

What families tell us.

Her teacher stayed back twice a week for a month. Nobody asked us to pay for it.

RM
Radhika M.Parent, Class VI

Teachers were in the playground, playing. You can't fake that on an open day.

AJ
Anand J.Parent, Classes II & VIII

I arrived reading far behind. No one made it a shame. Now I read to the little ones.

SK
Sneha K.Student, Class IX

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Admissions 2027–28

Come and see an ordinary Tuesday.

Applications close 31 July. The tour is free, takes an hour, and nobody will ask you for a deposit.