Victoria Institution is a secondary school for boys (and girls for Form 6) and one of the oldest schools in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The school is widely known as V.I. and a student of Victoria Institution bears the name Victorian.
VI achieves well in academic fields and sports at secondary school level in Malaysia. It was named a Cluster School of Excellence by the Malaysian Ministry of Education and considered one of the best non-residential schools in Malaysia. The school is named after Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, and was established by the British to commemorate her golden jubilee.
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