PM SHRI Kendriya Vidyalaya ASC Centre, Bengaluru

This is the oldest Kendriya Vidyalaya in Bengaluru and one of the oldest anywhere. The sangathan began in 1963 by absorbing ten regimental schools run for army units, and the school's own profile names itself as one of them. Sixty-three years later the address has not moved: No. 1 Victoria Road, Bengaluru 560047, inside the Army Service Corps establishment that gives the school its name and its sector. A family reading this should understand what the ASC tag means in practice. It is a defence-sector campus, so the first claim on seats belongs to serving and retired defence personnel, and a civilian household is applying against that order rather than alongside it.

The scale is the second thing to know. The school's own profile puts the campus at 15.29 acres with 85 rooms including laboratories and staff rooms, which makes it physically the largest of the Bengaluru KVs covered here. The homepage counter reads 1,243 boys and 1,227 girls, so a roll of roughly 2,470, and the section table confirms why: five parallel sections in every class from Class 1 to Class 10, with average enrolment per section sitting between 39 and 51. Five sections is one more than the four that KV No. 1 Jalahalli and KV Anna Nagar run, and two more than the three at KV CRPF Yelahanka. A big school is not automatically a better school, but it does change the odds at the Class 1 draw of lots, and it changes how many children a subject teacher sees in a week.

The senior school is where this campus separates itself. The section table lists three Science sections, one Commerce and one Humanities at both Class 11 and Class 12, and the profile page states Science, Commerce and Humanities outright. Humanities at a Kendriya Vidyalaya is not a given: several campuses in this group publish only Science and Commerce. The staffing table backs it up rather than leaving it as a claim, with a PGT in Geography, a PGT in History and a PGT in Economics all filled and in post. If a child is heading for a humanities degree, this is a shorter list of schools to choose from than it looks.

The staffing table also carries the less flattering half, and it is published by the school itself, which is why it can be quoted here. The Vice Principal post has been vacant since 30 November 2025. One of three sanctioned PGT Physics posts and one of three PGT Chemistry posts are unfilled. A TGT Sanskrit post has stood vacant since 2 September 2024, a TGT Social Science post since 20 June 2025 and a TGT English post since 6 May 2025. The sub-staff position is the starkest line on the page: two people in post against fourteen sanctioned, with the gap dating to 31 March 2024. Vacancies of this kind are filled locally on contract while the central recruitment cycle catches up, which is worth asking about at the office rather than assuming either way.

On facilities the school is candid in both directions. It states plainly that it has no Atal Tinkering Laboratory and no digital language laboratory, which many schools would simply have left off the page. What it does have is three computer laboratories each with an internet connection, a digital library described as carrying eleven high-specification systems, and separate Physics, Chemistry and Biology laboratories. The campus also runs a Balvatika 3 section, the pre-primary year KVS has been rolling out, listed with forty places. As a PM SHRI school it is part of the central scheme for schools designated as exemplars under the National Education Policy 2020, which brings its own funding and reporting but does not change the admission rules.

One caution about numbers on the site: the homepage counter reports 79 employees and then breaks that down as 79 teaching and 4 non-teaching, which does not add up. The teacher vacancy table is the more reliable count, and it lists a sanctioned establishment of roughly ninety teaching posts across PRT, TGT, PGT, Headmistress, Vice Principal and Principal grades. Treat the dashboard figure as decorative and the table as the record.