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Delhi Public School

Bhopal

romoted to mark the new millennium, DPS, Bhopal (DPS-B, estb.2000) is the first franchisee school of the high-
P ly-respected Delhi Public Schools Society (estb.1949), which has over 200 owned and franchised schools coun-
trywide, in Madhya Pradesh. Affiliated with the Delhi-based Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), over the
past 19 years, DPS-B has acquired an excellent reputation in Bhopal (pop.1.8 million), the administrative capital of the
sprawling Hindi heartland state of Madhya Pradesh, for providing rigorous academics complemented with enabling
co-curricular and sports education. In the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings 2018-19, DPS-B is ranked
among the Top 10 schools countrywide in the co-ed day-cum-boarding category.

ABOVE Set within a pristine green 26-acre campus overlooking
the Bhadbhada hillock in the city of lakes, DPS-B’s aesthetically
designed campus provides the school’s 4,500 students 21st
century infrastructure. Facilities include 110 Smart classrooms,
four libraries housing 24,500 volumes and 34 journal subscrip-
tions, a 300-seat amphitheatre, five hi-tech computer labs,
14 science, maths and language labs, 120-bed boys hostel, a
science park and botanical garden for experiential learning.

RIGHT In the CBSE 2018 class X exam, DPS-B’s Pulkit Paliwal
was adjudged #1 in Bhopal and #3 statewide with an aver-
age of 98.40 percent. In the very same year Shabdita Tiwari
emerged state topper with an average of 99 percent in CBSE’s
national school-leaving class XII examination.

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