About Lady Irwin School in Lady Irwin Senior Secondary School, Shrimant Madhav Rao Scindia Marg, New Delhi

The Lady Irwin School for Girls was established in 1927, under the leadership of late Shri S. R. Das, the Law Member of the Viceroy's Executive Council, for the purpose of making quality education available under the same roof to all the children of Central Government servants, irrespective of their status. This welcoming dream of Shri Das in the service of children was fostered and nurtured by many more ¨C a galaxy of Educationists and the school kept expanding till 1947 when it proved itself to be an integral part of the community. It absorbed more than it had on its rolls and its student strength galloped from 400 to 1400.

Originally the school was directly under the administrative control the Ministry of Education, Government of India and received grant from the Central Government. Later it was transferred to the Delhi Administration in 1949. It is a composite School housed in three separate buildings viz. Primary at Defence Colony and Middle and Secondary at Canning Road, New Delhi.

There are about 3200 students in the school and team of 120 dedicated staff members. The results of the school at the Board's Examination as well as in Class to class promotion is cent per cent. The School has the following distinctive features.

• Collecting innumerable honors in Debates, Speeches, Recitations, Paintings and Essay competitions.
• Bagging prizes in Inter School Sports and Athletics meet. The record worth mentioning is that for fifteen consecutive years it once retained the championship.

Finally, the commitment to the idea of bringing within the reach of the middle income group, type of education, which hitherto, only the more fortunate could give their children in public schools.

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