PM SHRI Kendriya Vidyalaya Island Grounds, Chennai

Location is this school's clearest advantage. It stands on Pallavan Salai, the road formerly called Body Guard Road, very close to Chennai Central railway station and near the Body Guard Muneeswarar temple, on 6.6 acres of army land that the school describes as thickly planted and laid out with gardens. For a central government family living anywhere on the suburban rail network, a campus within walking distance of Central is a different proposition from one fourteen kilometres out at Ashok Nagar or six kilometres from a bus stand in Tambaram. The postal code is 600002 and the office number is 044 29570350.

The second distinguishing fact is the Arts section. The school's table lists one Arts section at Class 12 alongside one Commerce section and two Science sections. None of the other Chennai Kendriya Vidyalayas examined here carries a Class 12 Arts group. That single section is small, and it deserves scrutiny rather than celebration, for the reason set out below, but it does exist and it is the only one in this Chennai set.

The reason for scrutiny is on the school's own staffing table, and it is stark. Every humanities Post Graduate Teacher post on the establishment is vacant: History, Geography, Economics and Commerce, one sanctioned post each, none filled. So is the single PGT Biology post. The Principal's post has been vacant since 1 August 2025 and the Headmaster post is empty too. Two Sanskrit Trained Graduate Teacher posts stand unfilled, three of four Mathematics TGT posts, and seven of twenty-four Primary Teacher posts. Kendriya Vidyalayas run contractual appointments against gaps like these, and a school does not keep a Class 12 Arts group going on nothing, but a family placing a child into Arts or Commerce here should ask, specifically and by subject, who is teaching it this session.

The rest of the shape is ordinary and solid. Four parallel sections run in each class from Class 2 to Class 10, with the school's table putting average enrolment at forty a section. The homepage counter reads 1,010 boys and 844 girls, about 1,854 children, with 46 teaching and 4 non-teaching staff. On the filled side of the staffing table, the Vice Principal is in post, Computer Science, Mathematics at PGT level, Work Education, Physical and Health Education, Art and primary Music all have their sanctioned posts occupied, and Hindi is over-established at three teachers against two posts.

A caution about the section table itself: the columns on the published page are misaligned, so the free-seat and enrolment figures cannot be read off it with confidence in the way they can at the Anna Nagar or Ashok Nagar campuses. The section counts and the stream structure are legible and are used here; the seat-by-seat numbers are not, and nothing has been inferred from them. As with the other campus, the two registers disagree on the head: CBSE names Jaswant Marwari and the sangathan's directory names S Krishnasamy, while the school's own table says the Principal post is vacant, which makes a telephone call the only sensible first step.