PM SHRI Kendriya Vidyalaya CLRI, Adyar, Chennai

This is the only school in either city whose own site publishes the facts a register would want, as a plain block rather than as prose. Date of opening: July 1974. Highest class: 12. Number of sections sanctioned for each class: three, in every class from 1 to 12. Sector: Institute of Higher Learning. District: Chennai. State: Tamil Nadu. Every other campus in this set had to have its sector inferred from its sponsor or left unstated; here it is simply written down, and that one habit makes this the easiest Kendriya Vidyalaya in Chennai to verify from outside.

The Institute of Higher Learning sector is the least common of the four. It covers Kendriya Vidyalayas attached to universities, national research institutes and similar bodies, and the sangathan's admission priority treats employees of Institutes of Higher Learning under the Government of India as a named category. Here the institute is the Central Leather Research Institute on Sardar Patel Road at Adyar, a CSIR laboratory, and the school sits inside its campus, which the site describes as green and quiet enough to be a working environment rather than an address.

The laboratory provision follows from the sponsor and is unusual for a school. The site lists a laboratory each for Physics, Chemistry and biotechnology, three computer laboratories with local network and internet access, and separate junior mathematics and junior science laboratories for the younger classes, with an additional computer laboratory built specifically for the primary school. A biotechnology laboratory at school level is not standard Kendriya Vidyalaya equipment, and given that the sponsoring institute is a research laboratory, it is more likely than most such claims to be genuinely used.

The roll shows something no other campus in this set does: the homepage counter reads 742 boys and 795 girls, so girls outnumber boys outright, about 1,537 children in total. Staff number 37 and the counter records all of them as teaching with none non-teaching, which is almost certainly a data-entry artefact rather than the truth. Three parallel sections run in every class from Class 1 to Class 10, exactly as the sanctioned figure says, with two Science sections and one Commerce section at each of Classes 11 and 12.

Unusually for Chennai, there are seats. At the reading dated 1 September 2026 the table showed twelve free places in Class 12 Science, seven in Class 11 Science, five in Class 12 Commerce and one each in Classes 3 and 4. Free seats at Classes 11 and 12 typically follow pupils leaving after board results, and they make this one of the few realistic mid-course options in the city for a family relocating. The school also notes, in passing, that it is frequently used as a venue for workshops and seminars for both teachers and pupils, which is the kind of thing that happens to a school sitting inside a research campus.