Annie Besant School, Indore was founded by Narayan Das Yadav Shiksha Prasad Samiti. School has CBSE affiliation since 2010 and has teaching facility upto senior secondary school.

Initially the primary education of the children of service personnel at Mhow Station was looked after by the Combat Central School, managed by the College of Combat (now Army War College) and nursery education by the Nursery School, run by DSOI, Mhow. On the recommendations of HQ MB Area, Jabalpur, approval for opening Army School at Mhow, was accorded by the COAS in 1983. Subsequently, to facilitate opening of Army School, the existing Combat Central School and the Nursery School were closed and Army School was opened in July 1983, with the existing staff, students and infrastructure of these two schools. A new Managing Committee was composed with Commandant, College of Combat, as the Patron and Deputy Commandant, College of Combat, as the Chairman. Initially a sum of Rs 5,00,000/- (Rupees five lacs only) was received as Corpus on 16 July 1983 to be invested in Long Term Deposit. Presently the school is under the jurisdiction of MCTE with the Commandant, MCTE as the Patron and Commander, Faculty of Communication  Engineering as the Chairman of the school.

Army Public School Mhow was sanctioned provisional affiliation wef 01 May 84 to 30 Apr 86 by the Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi. During the session 1983-84, the school had classes up to VII standard and as per the Management Policy one higher class was inducted every year. During the session of 1985-86, Class X was introduced and CBSE granted affiliation and permission to start Class X wef 01 May 86 to 30 Apr 89. During the session of 1987-88, affiliation for Senior Secondary Classes,  XI and XII, was accorded for a period of three years wef 01 May 87 to 30 Apr 90

Army Welfare Education Society (AWES) is a registered body under the Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860 vide Registrar of Societies Delhi Administration, Delhi, Certificate No S/13459 dated 29 Apr 83