History of School

Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre built the Staff quarters with the view to facilitate accommodation to its employees. The quarters remained unoccupied for want of a school in the vicinity. To address the issue VSSC Central School was planned as an auxiliary unit of the Centre. Its inception was humble and small in scale. It started functioning on 28th June 1976 in two Type II Quarter in the Housing Colony Thumba. There were three teachers and twenty-eight students. To start with there were classes 1 to 5. Shri.C Subramaniam, the then Controller, VSSC inaugurated the school. VSSC administrative staff and parents were present on the occasion.Appointment of teachers was according to KV norms. There was no formal byelaw or governing structure for the school at that time.

Four teachers appointed as per KV norms joined the school on May 24 1976. Smt K C Padmakumari, Smt. M Leelamoni, Kum. Rema Nagarajan and Kum. Rugmini Devi and the Vice Principal, Shri. M S Anantha Ramu joined as Vice Principal on 10th September 1976. They were instrumental in laying the foundations of the school. The First of the 5 blocks of the school building were completed and the classes were shifted to the new building, the present school site. The staff strength soon increased to 7. Subsequently the school grew in size and quality.

Administration decided to grant for admission to wards of VSSC employees residing in the Housing Quarters. Plan of expansion was taken up. One more block was added on to the building in 1977-78. The student strength rose to 105 and the staff strength became 13. In 1978-79, class VII was started and the strength rose to 214.Approval for Middle school was got in 1979.Subsequently admission was granted to wards of all employees of VSSC, CISF and also the grandchildren of VSSC employees against vacancies in Class I.

The school followed the CBSE syllabus and affiliation to the Board was mandatory. Affiliation from CBSE for classes IX and X was obtained in 1980. The First batch of a handful of 6 students appeared for the AISS Examination (Class X) in 1982 securing 100% success. With the ever-growing strength, there was need to add more space. The 3rd and 4th Blocks of the school building were opened in 1985-86. The Parent Teacher Association was constituted in the same year. The Computer classes were introduced in classes 9 and 10. Faculty was arranged from the Computer Division of VSSC. In 1986 the student strength grew steadily to 600 with a total of 34 staff members both teaching and non-teaching. The school got affiliated to CBSE and got the status of a senior Secondary school in 1987.