Daratassalam International Delhi Public School | |
Native Name: | مدرسة دارة السلام العالمية الرياض |
Motto: | Service Before Self |
Schooltype: | Private |
Chairman: | Dr. Ibrahim Al-Quayid |
Principal Label: | Principal |
Principal: | Mairaj Mohammad Khan |
Gender: | Co-education (till kindergarten) Gender-isolated (from first grade) |
Age Range: | 4 to 18 |
System: | Indian (since 2004) British (since 2008) |
Medium Of Language: | English |
Daratassalam International Delhi Public School, Riyadh, better known as DPS Riyadh,[1] is a K–12 gender-isolated English-medium community-based international school in Umm al-Hammam, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Primarily serving the Indian diaspora,[2] it was founded in 2004 and comes under the aegis of Delhi Public School Society. It offers Indian curriculum prescribed by the Central Board of Secondary Education besides being a registered Cambridge International School.[3] It is a member of the CBSE Gulf Sahodaya[4] and is approved by the Ministry of Education, Government of Saudi Arabia.
In March 2004, while addressing a press-conference at the Riyadh Palace Hotel, the members of the DPS Society announced plans for opening a branch of Delhi Public Schools in Riyadh.[5] Delhi Public School was established on 15 July 2004 in the al-Maruh neighborhood of Riyadh.[6] In 2008, the school began offering IGCSE syllabus alongside the CBSE curriculum.[7] In 2012, the school management intended to shift the campus to a new location in Umm al-Hammam neighborhood,[8] which was completed by January 2013.[9]