Chettinad Vidyashram

Chettinad Vidyashram is a private school which was founded by the Kumara Rani of Chettinad Dr. Meena Muthiah in 1986. She is affectionately called "Meena Aunty" by her students. The school is located in the R.A Puram area in the city of Chennai, India. The principal is Mrs. Amudha Lakshmi. The school is one of the biggest schools in Chennai,with about 800 faculty members and around ten thousand students. Chettinad students are also called "CV'IANS".

The school enrolls children from kindergarten to high school. It is affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education, India. The medium of instruction is English. Two other languages from Hindi, Tamil, Sanskrit or French,german are mandatory.

History

In 1986, Kumara Rani Dr Meena Muthiah, founded the school with a motivation "to start an educational centre, combining the virtues of a Temple of Art and Culture - a dedicated school that blends discipline with freedom, endeavoring to raise the integrated child".

Motto

The motto of the school is: the golden mean.Strive Save and Serve

Facilities

The school has a massive library, five science laboratories, one biotechnology laboratory, two mathematics laboratories, two language laboratories and two audio-visual theatres with multi-media projection systems. Chettinad Vidyashram was one of the first CBSE schools in India to introduce Biotechnology as a specialization for class XI & XII students. <ref...
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