Umed Singh Memorial Senior Secondary School, Nahri, Sonipat

You should ask very carefully first. The government return records one child in Class 1 and none at all in Class 2, with pre-primary empty. The first substantial class is Class 5. The school does publish a fee for Classes 1 to 5, so it is offering those years, but a Class 1 admission here would mean a class of one or two children. Visit and ask directly what the primary section actually looks like.

The Board of School Education Haryana at Bhiwani, under code 18304, with permanent affiliation up to Class 12. The board's own list records the school under the same name and the same village, so the identification is exact.

Science, Commerce and Arts are all sanctioned by the state board. One honest caveat: the school employs eleven teachers in total, of whom only about three to six are recorded as teaching at secondary or senior secondary level, against 217 pupils in Classes 11 and 12. Sanctioned is not the same as fully staffed — ask how each stream is actually taught before choosing one.

They hold 217 of the school's 451 children. Several schools in the surrounding villages stop at Class 10, so this school takes a large lateral intake at Class 11 rather than promoting its own pupils up. It is effectively a senior secondary school with a small junior section attached.

131103. India Post lists Nahri as a sub post office under that code, and the school's own annual filing states the same. The 131023 recorded in the central register is wrong — that code covers Aterna, Jakhauli, Jhundpur, Manauli and Nangal Kalan, and contains no Nahri.

Eleven teachers for 451 children, about forty-one to one overall, on a compact site of roughly 2,980 square metres with twenty-two classrooms. The senior classes are the biggest in the school.

A monthly composite fee in four bands from Class 1 to Class 12, and nothing else — no admission fee, no prospectus charge and no examination fee at any grade. It is the simplest fee structure of any school in this part of the block.