The Delhi Public School Society took shape in 1949, with a long march to independence to fulfil a social, national need for young educated citizens to take India into the future. From the beginning in the President's Estate in 1941 as Church High School to Naveen Bharat School in 1947 and finally in 1949 at its present location on Mathura Road, DPS has traversed a long journey.

Guided by the cause of pioneering quality education for India?s deserving young minds, the society embarked on establishing many a premier school across the country From the first school established in 1949 the DPS family has today grown to a movement of more than 200 schools even in the remotest, most inaccessible parts of the country and abroad.

Innovation is fundamental to DPS learning programmes and its faculty has endeavoured to revolutionize in terms of ideas and practices, to match the demands of twenty- first century educational trends and global associations. The primary focus is on meaningful and joyful learning. Academia from the country and abroad, meet to exchange and partake of diverse cultural and intellectual experiences. Educational programmes evolve from the felt needs, incorporating contextual issues and challenges. Activities and events related to value education, environment, health education, games and sports, visual and performing arts, culture and heritage, international experience sharing, personality development etc. are effectively woven into the main fabric of school curriculum.te