Smt. Lilavatibai Podar High School, Mumbai

Smt. Lilavatibai Podar High School (LPHS), situated at Santacruz, Mumbai was established in 1972 by Shri Ganesh Narayan Podar. It is an English medium co-ed day school. It is registered under the Maharashtra government and is affiliated with Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations, New Delhi. Lilavatibai Podar offers classes from pre-primary to Class 12 ISC. It is a private, unaided and independent school. LPHS is part of the Podar Education Complex. The principal for the school is Mrs Sheila Alexander, assisted by the Senior headmaster, Mr Zaheer Sareea.

Lilavatibai Podar School has a sprawling campus which comprises of a single five-floored main building, Ramniranjan Podar Hall along with a playground well-equipped with modern sporting equipment, basketball courts, cricket nets, long jump pits, table tennis halls and an expansive football ground. The school also hosts numerous other facilities that provide students with an engaging and holistic environment. These include:

• Air-conditioned classrooms
• ICT connected to the cloud and central network in every classroom
• Laboratories for subjects such as science, mathematics and computer
• Library
• Audio-visual room
• Staff rooms
• Canteen
• Counselling room

Additionally, the school playground is spread across 12000 sq metres which host facilities for different sports. LPHS hugely encourages its students to participate in sports and various other physical activities to maintain a healthy and active lifestyle. The sports activities that the school offers are listed as follows:

• Cricket
• Athletics
• Throwball
• Football
• Basketball
• Handball
• Yoga
• Physical Education

Pertaining to these extracurriculars, inter-house competitions are organised regularly throughout the year. The students are encouraged to showcase their latent talents. There are also house trophies and championship awards, individually, awarded at the annual prize distribution ceremony. Beside these inter-house activities, the school also participates in inter-school tournaments and social drives. The inter-house activities are subject to the house system that LPHS follows, wherein the students are divided across four different houses - Raman (Red), Swami Vivekananda (Yellow), Tagore (Green) and Gandhi (Blue).

Lilavatibai Podar School aims to impart a liberal education which is focused on the development of the inherent personality of the student. LPHS, since it was established, has achieved a lot with the collective effort of the management, faculty as well as the students.

GENERAL INFORMATION FOR ADMISSION (Class 1-12)

• The registration of the ward should be completed ONLINE at the given link - http://www.podar.org/registrations/.
• After the online registration is successful, parents will receive a formal email from the school admission office, shortly afterwards, informing them about the date and time to visit the school in order to complete the admission procedure and secure the admission.
• The office timings are as follows, and the queries will be entertained only within this schedule:

Essential documents required to complete the admission process 

Please note: One photocopy of each document as well as the originals are required for verification.

1. A hard copy of the online Application form, signed by both the parents
2. Passport-size photograph of the applicant
3. Birth Certificate
4. Aadhar Card
5. Previous year's as well as the current class' report card
6. Any legal document pertaining to individual cases such as adoption, change of name, caste, etc., if applicable.
7. Pan Card and Aadhar Card of both the parents
8. Residence Proof
9. All payment will be accepted via cheque only.