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Delhi Schools 2024- 2025

Carmel Convent School

Girls only, CBSE affiliated, Christian Minority School with points based admission

Carmel Convent School is run by the Congregation of the Sisters of the Apostolic Carmel, an Indian congregation that took its roots in 1870. The school was founded on 16^th July 1957 and has completed its Golden Jubilee. The school was initially located at 65/ 48 Diplomatic Avenue. The school soon expanded and moved to a large rented house at 4 Kichener Road (now Sardar Patel Road). The sisters resided on the first floor of the house while the school was run on the ground floor. The 3 acre plot on Malcha Marg where the school is currently located was acquired in 1961.

The stated mission of the school is both the total development of its students and the installation of Gospel values in them.

Carmel Convent School
Malcha Marg, Chanakya Puri
New Delhi- 110021
Telephone- 26871299
e-mail: carmeldelhi@gmail.com
Website: www.carmeldelhi.com

Carmel Convent is located in a spacious, well planned building with extensive playgrounds. The playgrounds have courts for basketball, volleyball, badminton and tennis. The school itself has well equipped science and computer laboratories and a computerized library. The school has a number of clubs for activities such as debating, theatre, chess, computers, science and the environment.

The admissions made in 2023-2024 were to the Kindergarten (KG) i.e. Pre- Primary Class. Girls born between 01/04/2018 and 31/03/2019 were eligible for admission in 2023.The total number of seats available was 90.

The school adopted the following timeline in 2023-2024

Sale of Forms	01/12/2022- 23/12/2022
Submission By	23/12/2022
First List	20/01/2023

Carmel is one of the few Christian schools to use a point based systems for admissions even though it is not obliged to do so. The criteria on which admission is based are as below

Neighborhood	20 points. Candidates residing within 5 km of the school get 20 points, those residing between 5 and 8 km get 15 points, those residing between 8 and 10 km get 10 points and those residing between 10 to 15 km away get 5 points.
Sibling	10 points. Applicants are given 10 points if a real sister is already studying in the school.
Children of Alumni	10 points. Wards of school alumni get 10 points.
Christians	20 points. Christian applicants get 20 points.
Staff Wards	10 points. Wards of staff get 10 points.
Total	70 points.

The school requires that successful applicants produce the following documents.

An attested copy of the Municipal Birth Certificate of child
For Christians- A letter from the Parish priest/ pastor attesting their membership of the parish and their Baptism Certificate
For proof of residence- A photocopy of one of the following- Electoral I Card/ Ration Card/ Passport/ Electricity Bill/ MTNL Landline Bill Domicile Certificate/ Aadhar Card
For siblings- Copy of page number 7 of the school diary
For alumni- copy of passing certificate.

The cuttoff in 2023-2024 was at 15 points.

The top scoring students in each category in 2022-2023 were as follows- Science- 98.4%; Commerce- 98.2%; Humanities- 95.4%.

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