Vasant Valley School

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Vasant Valley School is a co-educational private high school in Vasant Kunj, Delhi, India. It accepted students in July 1990, a time when students were admitted till grade 4. Thereafter, the school added a new grade each year as the classes graduated to the next level. It currently operations from a M-F 7:25am - 3:15pm schedule. The first graduating class of Vasant Valley successfully completed 12 grades under the paradigm of CBSE in May 1999. The Director of the school is Mr. Arun Kapur, a former housemaster at The Doon School and an alumnus of St. Stephen's College, Delhi, the Headmistress of the Junior School is Mrs. Rekha Bakshi, and the Headmistress of the Senior School is Ms. Rekha Krishnan.

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Begun by the India Today group as an attempt to invigorate the process of education, the school provides its students with opportunities often unavailable in most other schools, an endeavour that earned it a reference in the July 2005 edition of Fortune magazine as one of the key educational institutions that prepared a new generation of Indians... innovators and leader. The school boasts of significant extra curriculum activities that attempt to groom students into complete human beings. Such activities include Environmental Awareness (pioneered by Mr. Madhu Ramanathan and Mr. Aashish Shah in the founding years of the school) and an after hours peer teaching program where students volunteer to teach students from neighboring underprivileged schools. This school has also had interactions with Sunita Williams and other members of NASA. Overall, this is one of the best schools in Delhi.

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Alumni of Vasant Valley School have been placed at many world-class Universities and colleges in the world. These include St. Stephen's College, Shri Ram College of Commerce, Hindu College among others in Delhi University; Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi; National Law School, Bangalore; National University of Jurisdictional Sciences, Kolkata; All India Institute of Medical Sciences etc.; University of Cambridge, Royal Academy of Drama, University of Warwick, etc. in the UK; Stanford University, Princeton University, Yale University, Rutgers, University of Pennsylvania, University of Purdue etc. in the US and colleges in Singapore, Australia and Canada as well.