Vandana Senior Secondary School, Sevli, Sonipat

The Haryana Board of School Education. The government register records it as state board at both secondary and senior secondary level, the school's own affiliation page says in its body text that it is affiliated to HBSE, and its recognition is a Haryana senior secondary order from 2017.

No, and this is worth understanding before you rely on that page. The heading on its affiliation page carries a CBSE number, 531293, but the text immediately below it states the school is affiliated to the Haryana board and discusses HBSE examinations. We checked the number against CBSE's own register: 531293 belongs to a different school — The Modern School ECNCR, at Rajiv Gandhi Education City. That school is also in Sevli village, which makes the mismatch easy to miss. Vandana's own mandatory disclosure gives a Haryana recognition order rather than a CBSE number, and its statutory filing declares no board at all. Treat any CBSE description of this school with caution and ask to see an affiliation certificate.

Not established. The school runs three sections in each of Classes 11 and 12 and maintains physics, chemistry, biology, composite and mathematics laboratories, but it has no commerce lab and names no streams anywhere. Its website advertises NDA, NEET and military nursing coaching, which is preparation rather than a stream. Ask the school directly.

Twenty-nine teachers for about 1,236 children, roughly forty-three to one and the highest ratio in this group. The school's own filing reports thirty-six staff and its disclosure thirty-five, so the three figures differ. Ask about the size of the specific class your child would join.

131023, confirmed by the school's own website footer, the government register and its statutory filing. Its mandatory disclosure table shows 131001, which is the generic Sonipat city code and is wrong.

Its senior secondary recognition dates from 2017, and it was still registered as Vandana High School in the government records for 2018-19. The school itself dates from 1982, so the senior wing is a recent addition to a long-established school.

Low for a school of this size — a monthly composite fee rising by class band, with a one-time admission charge, a prospectus and registration fee, and a board examination fee in Classes 10 and 12. Note that the school files two different schedules and continuing families pay on a different basis, so ask which applies to you.