India’s CBSE landscape is evolving fast, with a clear shift from memorisation to competency-based, skill-focused learning that prepares students for real life, not just board exams. In this dynamic scenario, Queen’s Valley School (QVS), Dwarka, stands out as a future-ready, all-girls CBSE institution that blends strong results with holistic growth, making it a deserving recipient of the “Best CBSE School of the Year 2025” honour.
Academic Excellence and CBSE Mastery
QVS closely aligns its classroom practices with CBSE’s competency-based framework, moving students from rote recall to application, problem-solving, and higher-order thinking. Each lesson is mapped to clear outcomes in knowledge, skills, and attitudes, and assessments include projects, portfolios, practicals, and real-world tasks that make learning visible and meaningful.
The school offers a complete CBSE pathway from Nursery to Class XII, with Science, Commerce, and Humanities streams at the senior secondary level. Its students record a 100% pass rate in board examinations, with multiple perfect scores and a high proportion of learners scoring above 75% and 85%, reflecting both rigour and effective teaching.
Experiential STEAM and innovation
Queen’s Valley School invests heavily in STEAM through well-equipped labs, makerspaces, and a dedicated STREAM programme that integrates science, technology, reading, engineering, arts, and mathematics. From coding and Artificial Intelligence in higher classes to design-thinking projects, hackathons, robotics, astronomy, and interdisciplinary fairs, students learn to innovate, collaborate, and solve authentic problems.
Holistic growth for empowered girls
As an exclusive girls’ school, QVS is deeply committed to creating “Sarvgun Sampanna” learners, who are academically sound, confident, ethical, and socially aware young women. Sports, performing and visual arts, inter-school festivals, student leadership through the House system and Council, Model United Nations, entrepreneurship clubs, disaster-preparedness initiatives and community service are woven into school life, not treated as add-ons.
Well-being, safety and inclusion
Student well-being is treated as foundational, with a trained counselling team, special educators, and a structured life-skills and wellness curriculum that covers emotional literacy, relationships, stress management, and digital well-being. Robust safety measures, anti-bullying practices, and a strong inclusion policy ensure that girls, including those with learning difficulties, learn in a secure, supportive, and respectful environment.
Partnering with parents and the community
QVS nurtures a strong school–home–community partnership through purposeful parent–teacher interactions, effective digital communication, and workshops that enable families to support competency-based learning and adolescent well-being. Strategic collaborations with NGOs, industry partners, and higher-education institutions provide students with mentoring, career exposure, and authentic real-world learning experiences, while student showcases and school events ensure parents remain actively involved in their daughters’ educational journey.
Investing in teachers and the future
Believing that educational excellence is rooted in teacher empowerment, QVS follows a structured professional development programme comprising weekly learning communities, CBSE- and NEP-aligned training, lesson study, and collaborative assessment design. With a future-focused vision, the school is advancing towards personalised and hybrid learning, ethical integration of technology, global citizenship education, sustainability initiatives, and resilient well-being systems, all firmly anchored in respect, inclusion, academic integrity, service, and a spirit of joyful curiosity.
Through this integrated focus on academic excellence, innovation, well-being, and values-driven leadership for girls, Queen’s Valley School exemplifies what a contemporary CBSE institution can and should be, fully justifying its recognition.
