Kepong Baru National Secondary School

Kepong Baru National Secondary School (Malay:Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Kepong Baru) is a public coeducational secondary school located in the middle of the housing estate Kepong Baru in Kepong, Kuala Lumpur.

SMKB was established in the year 1969. When it was first established, the first batch of students had to use the facilities of a nearby school, SRK Batu 4, Jalan Ipoh. In the meantime, the construction of the school was in progress on an land in the heart of Kepong Baru. The students during that time were actually under the supervision of Allahyarham Khalid Murshid, the principal of SMK Raja Abdullah. There were 341 students being enrolled for the first time and the number grew drastically over the years. Up until now, the number of students is at least 3000.

The school features 6 blocks of classrooms, various chemistry, physics, biology and multidisciplinary labs, 2 staff offices (1 for morning session, another for afternoon session), a front office, technical skills labs, a large library, multimedia conference rooms, a computer lab with 2 levels, a general meeting room, a foyer, 2 medical rooms, a gym room and various other personal spaces and rooms for clubs, societies, uniform bodies and student bodies. The school also has other recreational facilities such as the canteen, football field, basketball courts, hockey field, tennis court, fruit gardens and a multi purpose badminton hall.

Members of the board are required to have confidence and leadership skills. This dedicated group of people dress in uniforms with blue tops, dark blue skirts for the girls, white trousers for the boys, a tie, white socks and black shoes. Their sole purpose is to monitor the school's discipline and help discipline teacher to ensure the discipline of the school is kept under control. This board is the first and most important special unit in the school and they are divided into two sections which are the morning session prefects and afternoon session prefects. The morning session prefects are led by the leaders of the board which consist of form five prefects and they are easily identified as they are the only group of prefects which puts on a blazer while carrying out their duties. The board is then followed by form four junior prefects who wear a long sleeve blue shirt, and then the form one until form three prefects who wear a short sleeve blue shirts. There are many positions in this board, but they are only given to suitable and appropriate form 5 seniors chosen by the dedicated teachers. Some of the units of this board are PA, Discipline, HEM, and zones.

Members are required to dress in uniforms with green tops and dark green bottoms. This board has two sections, namely the Librarians section and the Media section. Members in the Librarian section are in charge of the school library administration, while those who are in the Media section are in charge of the various PA system usage, most commonly during school assembly every day and every function and ceremony during school hours. The main teacher for this board in Mrs Juliyana.

Members are the aggregate class monitors from all classes of Form 3 to Form 5 in the school. The current teacher adviser is Pn Bavani a/p Sheivadasan.

The Road safety Board, more commonly known as KJR (Keselamatan Jalan Raya) is a board that monitors the traffic in and around the school, preventing any accidents or incidents as such. Members are required to dress in uniforms with yellow tops and dark green bottoms. This board is the first Road Safety Board in the state of Kuala Lumpur. Mostly harmless, there are few functions and positive contributions related to this particular board as it helps to secure the traffic in the school and also prevents accidents between teachers in their vehicle and students who are walking. Not only that, the board also helps with managing the traffic during school events and assisting the teachers, students and school visitors on the road.

Members are required to dress in uniforms with purple tops and dark blue bottoms. The goal of SPBT is to ensure that students from parents or guardians who are less able receive SPBT textbooks in the first week of the school session. SPBT is in charge of implementing the textbook loan scheme for all the KBians. The most important thing is to control the use of textbooks.

Members are required to wear a brown vest with the briged bestari logo on the back. Briged bestari helps with the technical side of things and some members are part of the publicity team for the school. Their duties include taking care of the computer lab, helping teacher or students with technicalities issue with the computers, post the latest info about the school on the school website and Facebook. Briged members built the current website and occasionally tasked with video editing for special events.

This special body that consists of a very few amount of selected members. Their job is to prevent aedes mosquito infestation in school.

SMKB has been known for the many recent years of sports. This is mainly because of SMKB being one of the few schools in Kuala Lumpur that are equipped with sports facilities. For example, SMKB has a 300m track field, a futsal court, a basketball court, 4 badminton courts and a hockey pitch. **Owing to the few tennis players, the tennis court has since transformed into a futsal court.