The Delhi Public School Society or DPS Society is a chain of schools. The descriptor "Public School" references the model of the long-established public schools in the United Kingdom. The Delhi Public School Society is the administrative authority for all its institutions in India and abroad. History The first school associated with the Delhi Public School Society was Delhi Public School, Mathura Road established in 1949. The foundation stone of the school building was laid in 1956 by Vice President S. Radhakrishnan. Accreditation The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) provides accreditation for all schools in the society except for four; DPS New Town, Kolkata; DPS Mega City, Kolkata; and DPS International, Singapore, are affiliated with the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE), whilst DPS International, Saket, New Delhi, is affiliated with the International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE), List of Schools Core Schools As of April 2022, there are 13 original or core branches of the Delhi Public School. The list of core schools is as follows: Delhi Public School, Mathura Road, New Delhi Delhi Public School, R. K. Puram, New Delhi Delhi Public School, Sector-30, Noida, Uttar Pradesh Delhi Public School, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi Delhi Public School, Faridabad, Haryana Delhi Public School, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh Delhi Public School, Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh Delhi Public School, Rohini, New Delhi Delhi Public School, Dwarka, New Delhi Delhi Public School, Navi Mumbai Delhi Public School International, Saket Delhi Public School, Knowledge Park-5 Delhi Public School, Sector-122, Noida Franchise school As of April 2022, there are around 206 schools running under the DPS Society as franchises. These are not the core schools ones and are not managed directly by the DPS Society. Controversy Due to its legacy, good academic and extra curricular performance and alumni network, schools affiliated with the Delhi Public School Society are considered to be one of the best in India. This has given rise to situation where other schools not affiliated to the "Delhi Public School Society" have named and branded themselves as DPS schools. The first such case was that of the "Delhi Public School Ghaziabad Society" which was started in collaboration with the Delhi Public School Society but later became a separate organisation, and currently runs a chain of eight schools. A court case was filed in 2002 in the Delhi High Court by the Delhi Public School Society against the Delhi Public School