PM SHRI Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1, AFS Jalahalli West, Bengaluru

Few school websites bother to record when their buildings went up and who cut the ribbon. This one does, and the detail is worth reading because it tells you how the campus grew. The school started in 1964 in temporary accommodation inside Air Force Station Jalahalli West. The first phase of the permanent building, now the primary block, was inaugurated on 10 February 1978 by Air Commodore M L Shetty. The sports complex followed on 9 January 1979, opened by the cricketer Syed Kirmani. The three-storey secondary block came on 4 May 1983, inaugurated by Air Marshal E R P Nair. A family standing in the primary block is therefore standing in a building that is nearly fifty years old, and in the secondary block in one that is forty-three.

It is an air force campus, which sets the admission logic before anything else. Defence-sector Kendriya Vidyalayas exist first for the children of serving personnel posted to the station, and the sangathan's priority order then works outward through other central government employees, autonomous bodies, state government employees and finally everybody else. If you are not connected to the station, this is a school you can apply to but should not count on. The address is SM Road, Jalahalli West, Bengaluru 560015, and the office number is 080 28389852.

On size, the school's own pages give two answers. The genesis page states an enrolment of 2,178 across Classes 1 to 12. The homepage counter reads 1,084 boys and 1,047 girls, which comes to 2,131. Either way it is among the larger Kendriya Vidyalayas in the city, running four parallel sections in every class from Class 2 to Class 10 with average section sizes the school itself puts between 40 and 55. Class 9 was the heaviest at the last update on 17 August 2026, with 210 children across four sections.

The senior school is the interesting part, and it is in motion. The section table lists two Science sections and one Commerce section at Class 11, plus an Arts section carrying just eight pupils against thirty-two free places, and the school's news feed was running an admission notice for Class 11 Humanities at the same time. Class 12 has three Science sections and one Commerce section and no Arts at all. Read together, those two facts say the Humanities stream is new here and has not yet filled, which is useful in both directions: a child who wants Humanities has a genuine chance of a seat, and should also ask how many teachers and subject combinations that one thin section actually supports.

The staffing table is fuller than at several sister campuses. Three TGT English posts, three TGT Hindi and three TGT Social Science are all in post; PGT Chemistry runs at three of three and PGT Computer Science at two of two. The gaps are one PGT Physics post vacant since May 2025, the single PGT Biology post empty since June 2025, one TGT Mathematics post open since June 2026, and one of two TGT Sanskrit posts vacant since May 2025. Nineteen Primary Teachers are in post against twenty-four sanctioned. The support side is thinner than the teaching side: one regular sub-staff member against ten sanctioned, with a note that eight are outsourced, and all three laboratory sub-staff posts empty since April 2024.

As a PM SHRI school the campus is inside the central scheme that designates exemplar schools under the National Education Policy 2020. That brings funding and a reporting obligation; it does not alter who gets a seat, which remains entirely a matter of the sangathan's admission guidelines.