National Public School, Rajajinagar

National Public School (or NPS-RNR or NPS-R) is a school located in Bangalore, India, established in 1959 by K. P. Gopalkrishna. The campus, which consists of four buildings, is located on Chord Road, 5th Block, Rajajinagar.

House system
Students are divided into four houses which have been assigned a colour each. They are, "Phoenix" (blue), "Centaur" (red), "Pegasus" (yellow), and "Orion" (green). Every year, the houses compete for two trophies: the Sports Cup (awarded for athletics performance), and the House Cup (awarded for other merits such as drama, science, mathematics, etc).

Facilities
The school has two auditoriums. It has senior and junior science laboratories, a computer laboratory and other facilities like libraries, art rooms and a music room.

Sports
There are sports events conducted for classes 1 to 12 and kindergarten. Cricket, volleyball, basketball, football and throw-ball are the permitted outdoor sports, along with badminton, chess and annual races.

School events
The school organizes a bi-annual inter-school competition. The competition, known as "Napsonic", involves teams from only the sister schools competing to win prizes for events. To ensure fair play, the students of National Public School, Rajajinagar do not participate in the fests that the school sponsors.

Each year, the school organises a Graduation Day program to bid adieu to the graduating students of grade 12, during the course of which students hold lit lamps.

Intra-school and Inter-school MUNs knows as "R-MUN" have been conducted by the school since 2017.

Sister schools

 * National Public School, Koramangala
 * National Public School, Indiranagar
 * National Public School, Chikkabanavara
 * National Public School, Chennai
 * National Academy For Learning
 * The International School Bangalore
 * National Public School, Mysore
 * National Public School, ITPL
 * National Public School, HSR
 * National Public School International, Singapore
 * National Public School, Jalahalli
 * National Public School, Yeshwanthpur
 * National Public School, Hosur Road

Notable alumni

 * Ashwini Nachappa, international athlete from Karnataka
 * Ambi Subramaniam, violinist
 * Ravi Chandran, Kannada film actor
 * Bindu Subramaniam, Carnatic vocalist
 * D. K. Shivakumar, president of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee
 * D. K. Suresh, Member of Parliament, Bangalore Rural Lok Sabha Constituency
 * Divita Rai, Liva Miss Diva Universe 2022
 * Shashank ND, Co-Founder and CEO of Practo