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Ahlcon Public School

public school in Delhi, India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ4695179 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ahlcon Public School is a co-educational English Medium public school, established in 1988 by the Shanti Devi Progressive Education Society in New Delhi, India and is duly recognized by the Directorate of Education, Govt. of NCT, Delhi. The school is affiliated to Central Board of Secondary Education and offers AISSE and AISSCE at Standard X and XII respectively. The school has four student houses – Dhruv (Red), Eklavya (Yellow), Prahlad (Blue) and Shravan (Green).

Campus & facilities

The school provides various facilities to its students which include two libraries that house 20,000 books, a reading room, a video library, school counseling centre, an auditorium, student canteens, stationery supply shop and medical centre. The school has laboratories for Computing, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Multimedia, Language, Robotics, and Mathematics.

The Sports Complex has facilities for cricket, football, basketball, table tennis, yoga and badminton. It also comprises separate play facilities for the nursery and prep block students.

Subjects & activities

Besides using English as its medium of instruction for the major courses (Elementary courses, Mathematics, Sciences, Economics & Social Studies), the school also imparts communication skills in Hindi, French, and Sanskrit. There are three main elective streams for study beyond Class 10th: Science, Commerce, and Humanities.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Ahlcon Public School” as public school in Delhi, India. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ahlcon, Public and School.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1988. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Ahlcon, Public and School providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4695179. Authority coordinates are 28.609, 77.292. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1988.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ahlcon Public School” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.