Rajkiya Pratibha Vikas Vidyalayas, popularly known as RPVV or Pratibha, and reestablished as Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar Schools of Specialized Excellence (DBRA-SOSE), and eventually as CM SHRI Schools, alongside other schools of DoE, is a school system run by the Directorate of Education, Government of Delhi in Delhi, India. The member schools are in Raj Niwas Marg, Surajmal Vihar, Civil Lines, Yamuna Vihar, Kishanganj, Lajpat Nagar, Shalimar Bagh, Hari Nagar, Rohini, Paschim Vihar, Vasant Kunj, Lodi Road, Link Road, Dwarka in sector 5, 10 and 19, Gandhi Nagar, Rohini Sector 11, Gautampuri, INA Colony, IP Extension, Jahangirpuri, Narela and Nand Nagri.

Admission For RPVVs An entrance test is conducted every year. This is the only gateway for admission in the RPVVs. Admission of students is in 6th,9th and 11th standards. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, no entrance test was held for the 2020–21 school year. Class 11th admissions are held on the merit base of CBSE results of standard 10th.

Due to establishment of the DBRA-SOSEs in 2021, no new admissions are being accepted in RPVVs now and eventually the existence of RPVVs will come to an end in at most three years.

For DBRA-SOSEs For admission in DBRA-SOSEs, students need to appear in the entrance test in standard 9th and 11th in interested specialisations.

As of 2026, no new admissions are being accepted in SoSEs due to establishment of CM SHRI. Students under SoSE in class 10 (of session 2025-26) will be transferred to CM SHRI in 11th, and 11th class students will continue as SoSE in 12th as the last batch. SoSEs will come to an end in the next academic year.

For CM SHRIs For admission in CM SHRIs, students need to appear in the entrance test in standard 6th and 9th based on general syllabus & in 11th based on stream preference.

Affiliation RPVVs are affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education and Directorate of Education, Government of NCT of Delhi.

DBRA-SOSEs are affiliated with the newly formed Delhi Board of School Education and directorate of education, Government of NCT of Delhi.

CM SHRIs are affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education and Directorate of Education, Government of NCT of Delhi

RPVV/SoSE/CM Shri schools in Delhi

RPVV/SoSE/CM Shri, Gautampuri New Usmanpur RPVV/SoSE/CM Shri, Raj Niwas Marg (Ludlow castle no-1) RPVV/SoSE/CM Shri, Dwarka Sector 10 RPVV/SoSE/CM Shri, Civil Lines (Ludlow castle no-3) RPVV/SoSE/CM Shri, Dwarka Sector 5 RPVV/SoSE/CM Shri, Gandhi Nagar RPVV/SoSE/CM Shri, B- Block, Hari Nagar (Maya Puri Road) RPVV/SoSE/CM Shri, Nai Basti, Kishan Ganj RPVV/SoSE/CM Shri, Krishna Market, Lajpat Nagar RPVV/SoSE/CM Shri, INA Colony, C- Block, Defence Colony RPVV/SoSE/CM Shri, Plot No. 1, Link Road, Karol Bagh RPVV/SoSE/CM Shri, D-1, Nand Nagari RPVV/SoSE/CM Shri, A-10, Pocket-5, Narela RPVV/SoSE/CM Shri, A-6, Paschim Vihar RPVV/SoSE/CM Shri, Sector-11, Rohini RPVV/SoSE/CM Shri, B- Block, Shalimar Bagh RPVV/SoSE/CM Shri, A- Block, Jahangir Puri RPVV/SoSE/CM Shri, Surajmal Vihar RPVV/SoSE/CM Shri, B-1 Vasant Kunj RPVV/SoSE/CM Shri, B-Block, Yamuna Vihar RPVV/SoSE/CM Shri, Dwarka, Sector-19, Delhi-75GOVERNMENT OF NATIONAL CAPlTAL TERRITORY OF DELHI OFFICE OF THE REGIONAL DIRECTOR OF EIlUCATION (RPVY) C-4, VASANT VIHAR RPVV/SoSE/CM Shri, Rohini, Sector-21 RPVV/SoSE/CM Shri, I.P. Extension, near Maayo College

Achievements

2023: SoSE Rohini Sector 11 won the 'Delhi Robotics League', a premier robotics competition organized by IIT Delhi. Notably, students of SoSE Rohini Sector 17 have authored over 170+ books. 2018: RPVV Dwarka Sector 10 secured the first rank among government schools across India in the Education World rankings. 2018: Prince Kumar, a student of RPVV Dwarka Sector 10, scored 496 out of 500 marks in the Class XII board examinations and topped the Science stream in New Delhi. 2016: In the CBSE Class XII results, Kirti Dua from RPVV Civil Lines topped the Delhi state government schools across all streams by securing 97% in the Science stream. 2014: The RPVV Dwarka, Sector-11 Rohini, and Shalimar Bagh were ranked 3rd, 4th, and 6th respectively in an All-India survey conducted by Education World. 2013: In the CBSE Class XII results, a student named Ankit Saini from RPVV Dwarka secured the top position among students in Delhi government schools with a score of 97.4%. 2012: In the CBSE Class XII results, Sonali Goyal from RPVV Shalimar Bagh topped the students of Delhi government schools across all streams with 96.8% marks.ANALYSIS OF CBSE RESULT 2012 Class – XII PERFORMANCE 2009 (October): A team of teachers from the United Kingdom visited Delhi schools, including RPVVs, as part of a British Council program to study educational practices abroad. 2003: RPVV Paschim Vihar won the National Computer Literacy Excellence Award.

Remarkably, more than 170+ books have been written by students of SoSE Rohini Sector 17.

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