Delhi Public School Society is one of the largest institutions providing education at school level in India. It has a large number of schools under its aegis in India and abroad. The Delhi Public School Society, is the administrative authority for all the institutions under its banner. Some of the Delhi Public Schools are also affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) in New Delhi.
There are over 150 Delhi Public Schools in India with the largest schools located at Bikaner, Jaipur, Dhanbad, Bokaro, Bhopal, Sonipat, Bathinda, Farakka, R.K. Puram, Mathura Road, Ahmedabad, Patna, Vadodara, Rajkot, Bhagalpur, Ranchi, Noida, Ghaziabad, Jodhpur, Udaipur, Yamuna Nagar, Dehradun, Faridabad, Dwarka, and Vasant Kunj. Outside India there are 13 Delhi Public Schools in 10 different countries: United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Indonesia, Kuwait, Nepal (Birgunj, Dharan and Biratnagar), Qatar, Saudi Arabia (Jeddah and Riyadh), Singapore, Uganda (Kampala) and Ghana (Accra).
Delhi Public School, Mathura Road, founded in 1949 was the first Delhi Public School. It was founded by educationist Reverend James Douglas Tytler. It was followed in 1972 by Delhi Public School, R K Puram, which is widely recognized as the flagship DPS of the Society.
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