The school is surrounded by educational institutes like Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, and Gangothri School, and spreads over 120 acres (490,000 m2) of land in the city of Mysore.
Besides carrying out the functions of a typical school, it also functions as a laboratory for experimentation and tryout of new strategies and instructional training programs of the Institute.
students to observe, learn, and participate in teaching and serves as a center for the cooperative training and research endeavor of the staff of the Institute.
The school is affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and is known for its innovative approaches to teaching and evaluation and lays emphasis on the total development of the child’s personality.
Competency-Based Teaching (CBT) with an action research approach has been implemented in the school with effects from 1995 – 96.