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The Anna Nagar West Extension campus of Chennai Public School is a CBSE day school for KG to Class 12, not the group's international wing.
In brief
The Anna Nagar West Extension campus of Chennai Public School is a CBSE day school for KG to Class 12, not the group's international wing.
This is the original Chennai Public School campus, opened in 2009 and run by the Kupidisaatham Narayanaswami Educational Trust. It sits in a purpose-built block on TVS Avenue Main Road and enrols roughly 3,000 pupils on a single CBSE pathway. The Cambridge and IB programmes that the wider CPS name carries are run at the Thirumazhisai campus and at the separately branded CPS Global School, not here, so families wanting an international curriculum are looking at a different address.
Academic reputation in Anna Nagar is solid and the school markets itself on exam preparation and a Cambridge English assessment recognition. Parents moving from schools elsewhere should expect a more traditional Indian-school footing: structured CBSE teaching, formal parent contact rather than open WhatsApp access to staff, and facilities that draw mixed reviews.
Reviews
Families who have been through the Anna Nagar campus tend to rate the classroom work above the building it happens in. The recurring praise is for individual attention, a manageable class size, and board results that hold up, with one Class 10 cohort producing a near-perfect topper. The recurring frustration sits on the other side of the desk: the office is described as warm to prospective parents and noticeably cooler once a child is enrolled, and the cramped single-acre site means no real playground on campus, with sport run off a bus ride away. Parents also talk about outside tuition becoming the unspoken default by the senior years, and about morning drop-off snarling the surrounding streets.
Positives
- Academics and individual attention. Parents consistently credit the teaching with knowing each child, keeping classes small enough for individual feedback, and turning out strong CBSE board results, including a Class 10 topper near full marks.
- Classrooms and digital facilities. The fully air-conditioned, smart-board classrooms and the events calendar (sports day, carnival, special assemblies) come up as things families value about the day-to-day setup.
Considerations
- Office tone after enrolment. A repeated complaint is that staff are courteous to prospective families but curt once a child is in, with parents reporting slow or no response when they raise a concern.
- No on-site playground, tight site. The roughly one-acre campus has no proper playground, so children are bussed to an off-site ground for sport, and parents describe the extracurricular side as thin; parking is also tight.
- Outside tuition expected by senior grades. Some parents say private tuition becomes the de facto norm in the senior years rather than the school carrying the load alone, which adds cost on top of fees.
- Morning drop-off and traffic. Loose drop-off and pick-up timing is flagged for congesting the streets around the campus at the start and end of the day.
- Strict, traditional discipline. Rules are described as strict and old-fashioned; one isolated account alleged a co-curricular staff member being physical with students, which sits against an otherwise general view that teachers are kind to children.
Location
Chennai Public School Radial Nagar, Chennai Public School Radial Nagar, TVS Ave, Radial Nagar, Anna Nagar West Extension, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600101, India