What Facilities Should Parents Look for in a CBSE School?
Every school brochure has the same photographs. A child in a lab coat holding a test tube. A row of computers with nobody sitting at them. A library shot taken from an angle that makes the shelves look longer than they are.
The photographs are seldom fake. They are just taken on the one day of the year when everything is arranged perfectly.
So when you tour a CBSE school in Koderma this admission season, the useful question is not whether a facility exists. It is whether the facility gets used. Here is what to check, and how.
Start with the certificates nobody asks to see
This is the least glamorous item on the list and the most important one.
A CBSE-affiliated school has to hold a building safety certificate, a fire safety certificate, and a water and sanitation certificate. Schools teaching up to Class VIII also need recognition under the RTE Act. These are not optional formalities. They are the documents that mean the staircase can take a crowd and the wiring will not catch fire.
Ask to see them. A school that has them will hand them over without hesitating. Modern Public School publishes all of these on its website as downloadable PDFs, along with its state NOC, so you can read them before you even visit.
Look at whether the science lab is used or displayed
CBSE guidelines expect enough space, time and equipment for every student to actually perform experiments rather than watch one being demonstrated at the front.
So ask how many practical sessions a class gets in a term, and whether each child handles the apparatus themselves. Then look at the lab itself. Chemicals that have been opened, glassware that shows use, a schedule pinned to the wall. A spotless lab is not a good sign. It usually means an unused one.
MPS runs a composite science laboratory covering Physics, Chemistry and Biology, stocked with chemicals, specimens, glassware and instruments, with sessions supervised by subject teachers and safety protocols enforced while children handle equipment.
Apply the library test
The count of books tells you something. Whether children are in the room tells you more.
Ask how library periods work. Are they timetabled, or is the library open only when a teacher remembers? Can a child borrow a book and take it home? Is there anything on the shelves a ten-year-old would choose to read for pleasure, or is it all reference volumes bought to satisfy an inspection?
The library at Modern Public School holds over 5,000 books, and the mix matters as much as the number: storybooks, biographies, comics, magazines and journals alongside reference material, plus national newspapers and periodicals. Children visit on a scheduled timetable, carry library cards, and borrow one book at a time against a proper record.
Ask about power backup in the computer lab
This sounds like a strange thing to care about until you remember where we live. A computer lab in Jharkhand without reliable backup is a room full of switched-off machines for a good part of the year.
Ask directly. Is there UPS support on the systems? Is there an inverter or a generator behind it? Is the internet connection fast enough for a full class to use at once?
At MPS, the lab runs Windows systems with office applications and programming languages, each supported by UPS backup with inverter and generator power behind it, on a high-speed broadband connection.
Check that smart classrooms are actually teaching tools
A projector mounted on a ceiling is not a smart classroom. The question is whether the digital content is mapped to the CBSE curriculum your child is being examined on, and whether teachers are trained to use it as part of a lesson rather than as an occasional novelty.
Ask how often it is used in a normal week. At Modern Public School every classroom is technology-enabled, with curriculum-mapped digital content, interactive boards and audio-visual systems built into regular teaching.
Do not underestimate transport
Parents treat transport as an afterthought and then live with it for twelve years.
Find out whether your locality is on an existing route or whether the bus will need a detour. Ask about GPS tracking, driver training, and how long your child will actually sit on the bus each way. Forty minutes twice a day adds up to a tired eight-year-old.
MPS transport covers a wide spread of Jhumri Telaiya localities along with Koderma, Chandwara, Pathaldiha and Domchanch, with monthly fees published openly by area, currently ranging from around ₹1,000 to ₹1,700 depending on distance.
The facilities that are not buildings
Sports grounds, music and dance rooms, and a hostel for families coming from outside town all shape what a school day feels like. Ask whether these run as timetabled periods or only before an annual function. MPS students compete at inter-school, state and national levels, which is a reasonable sign that the sports facilities see regular use.
How the MPS team helps you check all this
Under Director Sangeeta Sharma, the school treats a campus visit as the point of the exercise rather than a formality. Their advisors will walk you through the labs, the library and the classrooms on a normal working day, tell you which transport route serves your area and what it costs, and answer questions about the hostel or fee structure without sending you away to find out yourself.
Modern Public School has been teaching in Koderma since 1991, which makes 2026 its thirty-fifth year. It is co-educational and English medium, running from Play Group to Class XII, and has been recognised as Best Co-Educational School in Jharkhand.
Come and check for yourself
Admissions for 2026-27 are open and sections fill early.
Use this list as a checklist, and use it at every school you visit. If you are evaluating a CBSE school in Koderma, book a campus visit at MPS and put these questions to the team directly.
Call +91 9631343995, +91 6207300328 or +91 8539993663, write to modernpublicschool2009@gmail.com, or apply online at mpskoderma.com/apply-online.
Modern Public School, Ranchi Patna Road, Jhumri Telaiya, Koderma, Jharkhand 825409.
