Bala Vihar

Run by the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary since the 1920s; one of India's best-known schools for the blind, with Braille, music and higher-secondary classes.

Sister school on the same campus, educating hearing-impaired children from nursery to Class 12 with a strong record of mainstreaming.

Tamil Nadu Government's residential school for blind students, taking children from across the state up to higher secondary.