PM SHRI Kendriya Vidyalaya Anna Nagar, Chennai

This school states its own sector in the first line of its description, which is rarer than it should be: it calls itself a civil sector school, co-educational and secular, run by Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan under the Ministry of Education, and places itself in the General Pool Residential Accommodation campus at Thirumangalam. Civil sector matters to an applicant because it is the broadest of the four categories. A defence campus effectively serves one station; a project campus serves one laboratory or factory; a civil campus serves the whole central government workforce in the locality, and in this case that means the households in and around the government housing at Anna Nagar West.

The address is the GPRA Campus on Jawaharlal Nehru Road, Anna Nagar West, Thirumangalam, Chennai 600040, with the office on 044 26158780. The school's own phrase is that it sits in the heart of the city, and for once that is close to accurate: Thirumangalam is well inside the built-up area with a metro station of the same name, which puts this campus among the easiest of the Chennai Kendriya Vidyalayas to reach without a car.

On size, the homepage counter reads 1,105 boys and 1,123 girls, so about 2,228 children, with 54 teaching and 4 non-teaching staff. The girls outnumber the boys here, which is unusual across this set of schools and is worth noting given that Kendriya Vidyalaya fee rules exempt girls from tuition from Class 6 upward. The section table gives four parallel sections in every class from Class 1 to Class 10 with average enrolment per section between 40 and 48, one Balvatika 3 section of forty, two Science sections and one Commerce section at Class 11, and the same at Class 12. Not a single free seat appeared anywhere on the table.

The school has a specific claim on this project beyond its own catchment: its mandatory disclosure page publishes the full Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan pay table, level by level, which is the source used for the salary statements on every Kendriya Vidyalaya record in this collection. That page carries a footer date of 30 October 2024 and sets out Post Graduate Teachers at Level 8, Trained Graduate Teachers at Level 7, Primary Teachers at Level 6, Principals and Assistant Commissioners at Level 12, Vice Principals at Level 10, Librarians, Finance Officers and Assistant Section Officers at Level 7, Stenographers and Senior Secretariat Assistants at Level 4, and Junior Secretariat Assistants at Level 2. Most private schools in Chennai publish nothing comparable.

What the school does put on its front page is worth a look because it is not the usual list. Recent items included pupils working with beekeepers, a visit built around the work of farmers, Class 10 and Class 12 topper announcements, a notice of visiting hours with the principal, a walk-in interview notice, the panel of contractual teachers for the 2026-27 session and a registration form for Class 11. That last item is the practically useful one: the school runs its own Class 11 registration for its existing Class 10 cohort, and publishes the form rather than handling it only at the counter.