If you are choosing a school in Ayodhya, you have probably already discovered the problem. Every website promises holistic education, modern facilities and a child-centred approach. The directory listings that come up alongside them carry a phone number, a star rating from nobody in particular, and not much else. None of it helps you tell one school from another.
There is a better way to do this, and it does not depend on marketing at all. Every school affiliated to CBSE is required to publish a specific set of facts about itself, in a specific format, on its own website. Those pages are dull, they are not designed to persuade anyone, and they are the most useful thing you will read during the whole search.
Here is how to find them and what to look for. We have used our own figures throughout as the worked example, so you can see exactly what you should be able to find for any school you are considering.
The page every CBSE school has to publish
CBSE requires each affiliated school to upload a Mandatory Public Disclosure, in the format at Appendix IX of the Affiliation Bye-Laws, at a prominent place on the school's own website. The requirement was notified in Circular No. 03 of 2021, dated 5 March 2021.
The format is fixed, which is the point. It means the same five categories of information exist for every school, in the same order, and you can put two schools side by side without comparing a brochure against a spreadsheet.
Look for a link called Mandatory Public Disclosure, or Disclosures, usually in the website footer. Ours is at udayapublicschool.edu.in/disclosures.
The six things worth checking
1. Affiliation number and school code
These are the school's identity in CBSE's records. Ours are affiliation number 2130443 and school code 70365.
Two numbers are more useful than they look. The affiliation number lets you check the school against CBSE's own list of affiliated schools, which the Board publishes on its affiliation page. The school code is what appears on your child's board registration and marksheets, so it also tells you the school has actually been presenting candidates.
If a school describes itself as CBSE-affiliated but cannot show you a number, that is the first question to ask, not the last.
2. The certificates, and their dates
The disclosure carries the school's affiliation letter, society or trust registration, land certificate, NOC from the state government, the DEO certificate, and the building, fire, and water and sanitation safety certificates.
Most parents skim past this section. Do not. Safety certificates carry validity periods, and the useful question is not whether a school has one but whether the one on display has expired. Open the PDFs and look at the dates. It takes two minutes and it is the single most concrete thing in the entire document.
3. The whole fee table, not a starting figure
The disclosure asks for the fee structure, which means all of it — admission fee, monthly fee, term fee, by class.
Ours, for 2026-27:
| Class | New admission | Monthly | Term |
|---|---|---|---|
| NLU | ₹9,000 | ₹2,650 | ₹700 |
| 1–5 | ₹10,000 | ₹2,800 | ₹700 |
| 6–8 | ₹11,000 | ₹3,150 | ₹750 |
| 9–10 | ₹14,000 | ₹3,900 | ₹1,100 |
| 11–12 Science | ₹14,000 | ₹4,450 | ₹1,200 |
| 11–12 Commerce | ₹14,000 | ₹4,350 | ₹1,200 |
Our online application fee is ₹700 and is non-refundable. The full table also sits on our admissions page.
When you compare fees across schools, compare the same row. A monthly figure quoted for Class 1 tells you very little about what Class 11 Science will cost you in eight years, so ask for the table rather than the starting figure.
4. Board results with the denominator attached
CBSE asks for the last three years of Class X and Class XII results. What matters is not the pass percentage on its own but the two numbers behind it: how many students were registered, and how many passed.
Ours, with a fourth year added:
| Year | Class X registered | Passed | Class XII registered | Passed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 247 | 243 | 238 | 230 |
| 2024 | 239 | 239 | 213 | 206 |
| 2025 | 240 | 238 | 234 | 229 |
| 2026 | 241 | 241 | 201 | 200 |
A school with a hundred per cent pass rate and forty candidates is telling you something quite different from a school with a hundred per cent pass rate and two hundred and forty. And a cohort that shrinks sharply between Class X and Class XII is worth asking about. There are ordinary reasons — families move, students switch streams or change boards — and a school should be able to tell you which of them applies to its own numbers.
Ask for the registered figure. Any school that reports its results honestly will have it ready.
5. Teachers, by category
The disclosure asks for staff counts broken into PRT, TGT and PGT — primary teacher, trained graduate teacher and post graduate teacher, roughly the primary, secondary and senior secondary tiers.
Our disclosure lists 125 staff in all. The teaching breakdown is 9 pre-primary, 41 PRT, 30 TGT and 16 PGT.
The breakdown matters more than the total, and it is why you should read the categories rather than the headline number. A school with a large overall staff but very few PGTs is thin exactly where Classes 11 and 12 need depth. If your child is heading for a science or commerce stream, that row is the one to read.
6. Space, in square metres
Campus area, number of classrooms and their size, number of laboratories, toilets, internet.
Our campus is 10,511 sq m, with 58 classrooms of 46.45 sq m each and 9 laboratories of 98 sq m each, 21 girls' toilets and 21 boys' toilets.
Divide classroom area by the class size the school quotes you. It is a rough measure and it will not capture the quality of teaching, but it will quickly tell you whether the numbers a school gives you in conversation are consistent with the numbers it has filed.
What the disclosure will not tell you
It will not tell you whether your child will be happy. No document does.
It will not tell you how the school responds when a child is struggling, whether a quiet student gets noticed, how much homework comes home on a Tuesday, or what happens when a parent disagrees with a teacher. Those are the things that will actually shape your child's next ten years, and there is no proforma for them.
So use the disclosure for what it is good at. It settles the factual questions quickly and it tells you whether a school is being straight with you. Then go and visit, and spend your visit on the questions the paperwork cannot answer:
- Can we see a regular classroom during a regular period, not the display room?
- Who teaches Class 11 Physics, and how long have they been here?
- How many students in a section, actually, in the class my child would join?
- What happens in the first month if my child is behind?
- What did the last three families who left say about why they were leaving?
That last one is unfair and we would still ask it. The answer, and how readily it comes, tells you a great deal.
Where we stand
We would rather you checked. Every figure in this post is published on our disclosures page with the certificates attached, and it is there because CBSE requires it, not because it flatters us — our Class XII cohort in 2026 was 201 students and 200 passed, and we would rather print that than round it.
If you are comparing us against other schools in Ayodhya, do it properly. Read our disclosure, read theirs, and ask all of us the hard questions. We would rather be compared than taken on trust.
Coming to see us
Admissions for 2026-27 are open. You can start at our admissions page, or simply come to the school on Panchkosi Parikarm Marg between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. and ask to look around.
If you would rather talk first, contact the office on +91 72688 51612 or at info@udayapublicschool.edu.in. Ask us anything on the list above. We will answer with numbers.