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Kevin Larry
kevin.larry@preskool.com
–27Academic year
Academic Settings
The shape of the school year: its terms, grades and sections, what is taught in each, how it is marked, and the rules that decide who moves up. Everything on this page is scoped to the year above.
Four changes are held as drafts. Nothing reaches a teacher, a student or a report card until the year is published.
General
What kind of school this configuration describes.
Institution
What kind of school this configuration describes
Working days & timings
The week the school actually runs
Academic policy defaults
Where the school sits on the questions that matter
Who may change this
Academic configuration is not a general permission
Academic Year
The scope for everything else on this page.
Current academic year
2026 – 27 · the scope of every setting on this page
Rolling over
What happens when 2027 – 28 opens
2027 – 28
Drafted 12 Jul 2026 · structure copied, calendar not yet set
2026 – 27
Active since 06 Apr 2026 · 103 of 224 instructional days elapsed
2025 – 26
Closed 31 Mar 2026 · results published, records read-only
2024 – 25
Closed 31 Mar 2025 · retained for transcripts
Terms & Semesters
How the year is divided, and what each division carries.
Three terms rather than two semesters, which is what the board expects and what the report card is laid out for. Changing this is a between-years decision.
Term 1
06 Apr – 26 Sep 2026
Term 2
05 Oct 2026 – 09 Jan 2027
Term 3
18 Jan – 31 Mar 2027
Term structure
How the year is divided, and what that implies
Term locking
When a term stops accepting changes
Grades & Classes
Twelve grades in four stages.
Class structure
How the school is banded
Capacity
Where the numbers are tight
Twelve grades in four stages. Each stage carries its own assessment pattern and promotion rule, which is why the stage matters more than the grade number.
Primary stage
No formal examination · continuous assessment only · automatic progression
Middle stage
Unit tests and terminal examinations · 33% pass mark · no detention below Class VIII
Secondary stage
Board pattern · internal and external marks · 33% in each subject
Senior secondary stage
Three streams · practical components · board examination in Class XII
Sections
Where the students actually sit.
Thirty-eight sections across twelve grades. The two shown in amber are above the 40-student ceiling; a third section in each would bring them back inside it.
Class VI
Middle stage · 4 sections · 158 students
Class VII
Middle stage · 4 sections · 152 students
Class VIII
Middle stage · 3 sections · 112 students
Class IX
Secondary stage · 4 sections · 159 students
Class X
Secondary stage · 3 sections · 114 students
Class XI
Senior secondary · 3 streams · 96 students
Classes I to V and XII are configured the same way and are omitted here for length.
Subjects
Twenty-four subjects, and what each is worth.
Twenty-four subjects in four groups. A student takes every core subject, one elective from Class IX, and the practicals that belong to their stream.
Core — taught to every student
6 subjects · 31 credits in total
Elective — chosen from Class IX
7 subjects · 22 credits in total
Practical — carries a laboratory component
5 subjects · 22 credits in total
Non-scholastic — graded, not marked
6 subjects · 6 credits in total
Curriculum
What the school teaches against.
Curriculum framework
What the school teaches against
Teaching hours
What the timetable has to fit
Credit system
How subjects are weighted against each other
Learning outcomes have not been mapped yet
The board publishes an outcome list for each subject and grade. Mapping them here would let a report card say what a student can do, rather than only what they scored. It is a term’s work for the academic team and nothing depends on it.
Grading System
How a mark becomes a grade.
Grading scale
Eight bands · nine-point grade scale · applied from Class VI upwards
The pass mark sits at 33, which is where the scale turns. A student below it is graded E and carries the subject into a supplementary examination rather than failing the year outright.
Grade calculation
How a mark becomes a grade
Ranking
Calculated, but not published
Assessment Rules
What a subject mark is made of.
Assessment pattern
What a subject mark is made of
Internal marks
The part a teacher awards
External marks
The written paper
Passing marks
The line a student has to clear
Examinations
Five cycles, and what happens after each.
Examination types
Five cycles across the year · two completed
Result processing
From marks entered to results published
Revaluation
What a student can ask for afterwards
Promotion Rules
Who moves up, and who decides.
Seven rules, applied in this order. They are written as statements rather than switches because a promotion rule is a policy the school has to be able to explain to a parent.
A student passing every subject is promoted.
The ordinary case. Promotion is still confirmed by the class teacher rather than applied automatically, because the register occasionally disagrees with the mark sheet.
Failing one or two subjects means a supplementary examination, not detention.
Held in the first week of April. Passing it promotes the student with the subject marked as cleared on supplementary. Failing it moves the case to the academic committee.
Failing three or more subjects is referred to the academic committee.
No student is detained by a rule alone. The committee looks at attendance, the year as a whole and any circumstance the school knows about, then decides.
No detention before Class VIII.
Required by the Right to Education Act. A student below Class VIII moves up regardless of marks, and remedial hours are scheduled instead.
Below 75% attendance a student may not sit the final examination.
The Principal may condone up to 10% for documented illness. Without the final examination there is no promotion, so this rule matters more than it looks.
Up to 5 grace marks may be awarded, in at most two subjects.
Applied only where it changes the outcome, and recorded on the mark sheet so it is never invisible.
Every promotion is signed off by a named teacher.
The name is stored with the decision. Nothing is promoted by the system on its own.
Attendance Policies
The register, and what it decides.
Attendance requirement
The line that decides eligibility
Marking rules
How the register is actually taken
Leave types
What an absence can be recorded as
Attendance on the report card
What a guardian sees
Timetable Rules
What the timetable may and may not do.
Period structure
The grid the timetable is built on
Teacher load
What the timetable may ask of a teacher
Clash rules
What the timetable will refuse to do
Subject distribution
Preferences, not requirements
Homework Policies
How much, how often, and why it is capped.
Five policies. They are unusually specific because homework load was the most common complaint in the 2025 parent survey, and vague guidance had not changed it.
Homework is set no more than four days a week.
Friday is deliberately kept free. The policy exists because the load was measured in 2025 and found to be nearly double what the board recommends for the middle stage.
Time expected: 60 minutes for the middle stage, 90 for secondary.
Set by the subject teacher against this budget rather than by the length of the task. If a class routinely exceeds it, the subject head is told.
No homework is set over a school holiday or a term break.
Project work assigned before a break is exempt, provided it was given at least two weeks earlier.
A class receives homework from no more than three subjects in a day.
Enforced by the homework module, which shows the class teacher what has already been set before a fourth subject can add to it.
Guardians receive a daily homework digest at 17:00.
Currently off, because the message template is still a draft. When it is published this becomes one message a day rather than one per subject.
Academic Calendar
224 working days, laid out.
The year, month by month
224 working days · 3 terms · 5 examination cycles · 22 holidays
Dated entries
14 fixed points in the year
Holidays
What closes the school
Activity calendar
What runs alongside teaching
Certificates
What the school issues, and how it is signed.
Digital signature
How a certificate is authenticated
Print settings
How a certificate reaches paper
Transfer Certificate
Issued on leaving · board format · signed by the Principal
Bonafide Certificate
Confirms enrolment · issued on request within 2 working days
Character Certificate
Issued with the transfer certificate on completing Class XII
Provisional Certificate
Issued before the board mark sheet arrives
Merit Certificate
Top three in each grade, and subject toppers
Attendance Certificate
For students above 95% attendance
Sports & Activity Certificate
Inter-house and inter-school participation
Course Completion
For the optional certificate courses
Internship Letter
Class XI and XII summer placements
Report Cards
What a guardian receives at the end of a term.
Report card template
What a term report contains
Issue & delivery
How a report card reaches a guardian
Rank is calculated but does not appear, which is the current policy. Non-scholastic areas are graded, never added to the total.
Academic Preferences
The smaller choices, grouped.
Restoring returns grading, assessment, promotion and attendance policies to the board’s default configuration. Grades, sections, subjects and every mark already recorded are untouched.
Audit History
Every change, with the name against it.
Audit history
Every change to academic configuration, retained for 3 academic years
How this configuration came to be
Six decisions, in the order they were taken.
Academic year created
Carried forward from 2025 – 26 with the grade structure, sections and subject list intact.
Curriculum updated
CBSE 2026 adopted following board circular 2026/AC/11. Tamil and value education kept as local additions.
Grading rules modified
Rank publication switched off on report cards. The scale itself was left alone; only what is printed changed.
Promotion policy updated
Grace marks raised from three to five, in at most two subjects, and always recorded on the mark sheet.
Academic calendar published
224 working days, 22 holidays and 5 examination cycles. Amendable only by the Principal after this point.
Configuration activated
Live for 1,428 students and 96 teaching staff. Four changes are still drafts and are not yet in effect.
Notes & recommendations
What the configuration suggests looking at, and what is worth leaving alone.
Publish the four draft changes together
Four settings are held as drafts: the homework digest, the middle-stage credit system, an academic policy default and a term-2 activity entry. Publishing them one at a time means four notices to every teacher. One publication would do.
Map the board’s learning outcomes
The outcome list has been published for every subject and grade since February. Mapping it would let a report card say what a student can do, not only what they scored. It is a term of work for the academic team.
Two sections are above the ceiling
VI-A holds 42 and IX-B holds 41, against a stated maximum of 40. Either the ceiling is not the real policy, or two more sections are needed before the next intake.
Internal marks are clustering high
Six sections averaged above 18 of 20 on internal assessment last term. The moderation rule exists for exactly this and has not been triggered, which suggests the threshold is set too high.
Eleven students are below 80%
They are still above the 75% line but the warning letter has not gone out, because the trigger is set at 80% and fires only at term end. Firing it monthly would give families time to act.
Rank is calculated but not published
This has held since June 2024 and is worth keeping. Rank is available to the class teacher, who can use it in a conversation, without turning a report card into a league table.
Term 3 activities are usually fixed in December
The activity calendar shows Term 3 as pending. This is normal at this point in the year rather than an omission; inter-house events are set once the examination dates are confirmed.
Grading system — 2026 – 27
Eight bands · nine-point scale · last changed 04 Jun 2026 by the academic committee
Configuration details
Current settings
Preview
Validation
Dependencies
Changing a band boundary re-grades every mark already recorded this year. It does not change the marks themselves, but 1,428 report cards would print differently.