Kendriya Vidyalaya Ambarnath was established on 24 June 1965.
It functions as a two shift school with classes from 1 to 12 Science, Commerce and Humanities in the First shift and classes from 1 to 10 in the Second shift. The Second shift started from 08 August 2011.The main building was inaugurated in 1990. There are two more blocks one for secondary and the other for Sr secondary added later on. At present the strength of first shift is 1700 and second shift is 700.Staff strength is 100.