M.L. Shiksha Sadan Middle School, Bhaira Bankipur, Sonipat

No — they are two separate schools one initial apart, and the difference matters. P.L. Shiksha Sadan teaches to Class 10 and holds a state board affiliation; this school teaches to Class 8 and holds none. They have different societies, different heads, different recognition orders, and sit about five hundred metres apart. Check the initial carefully when enquiring.

None, and none is expected. Board affiliation with the Haryana state board begins at Class 10, so a school teaching to Class 8 does not hold one. Families will need to move the child to another school for Class 9 — its neighbour in the same village does go that far.

A monthly fee rising from a thousand rupees in the early classes to fourteen hundred in the middle ones, with a one-time admission charge at the Class 1 and Class 6 entry points, a small prospectus charge, and an examination fee in Class 8 only. The school took no increase at all this year.

Separate music, dance and art rooms, a multipurpose hall, a computer lab and an activity room — the fullest provision of the three schools in this village. There are no science laboratories and no auditorium.

Nine thousand square metres, with about 6,200 built on — much the largest site in the village.

Yes, with about 23 children on the government return, corroborated by the school's own filing.

Yes over the last two years — from 77 children to 98. An earlier dip to 23 in 2023-24 sits oddly against 68 the year before and looks like a reporting lapse rather than a real collapse.