Established in 1976, the Central School for Tibetans, Kollegal is located in Dhondenling Tibetan Settlement at Odeyarpalya village in the south Indian state of Karnataka. The nearest town, Kollegal is 45 kms away. The day school is run and managed by the Central Tibetan Schools Administration (CTSA), Delhi, an autonomous body under the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India. It is a secondary school affiliated to Central Board of Secondary Education, Delhi. Over the years, the school has progressed and grown into one of the biggest secondary day school.
The school has a beautiful campus of 9.4 acres with all necessary infrastructure such as spacious classrooms, well-stocked library, teaching-aids resource room, computer section, science & math laboratories, basketball court, football field, gym, multi-purpose hall, games & sports room, a counseling cell and a tailoring & woodcraft section. The school is connected online via the Internet and is equipped with Xerox, fax, electric generator and duplicating machine. Staff accomodations have been built in and around the campus. The school enjoys good relations with the parents, local community and the settlement office. The local Dzogchen Monastery, PTA and local organizations are actively involved in the development of the school.
The school has shown consistently good academic results in previous years and achieved 92% result, which includes compartment results, in 2006 class X Board Examination. Various co-curricular activities viz. debates, quizzes, exhibitions, games and sports are conducted in the school in addition to strong emphasis on Tibetan cultural activities and performing arts. Last year, the school reached the quarter finals at the CBSE cluster VII soccer tournament held at Jain International School, Kanakpura, Bangalore and also bagged many prizes at the South Zone Cultural Meet organized by CTSA. The school has a well-established Boy Scouts and Girl Guides programme, organising camps and many social activities and has taken part in the 185th National Adventure Programme held at National Adventure Institute, Pachmarhi (M.P.) in 2005. Currently, the school has an enrolment of 658 students from pre-primary to class X and 33 teaching and 6 non-teaching staff. It has 3 pre-primary sections. Principal Mr. K.P. Singh heads the school.