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Institution Profile

CHIREC International School, Hyderabad

Routinely ranked among India’s Top 10 international day schools, CIS has established
a national reputation for providing 21st century technology-enabled holistic education to
its 2,528 students mentored by 244 highly-qualified teachers
PAROMITA SENGUPTA
panning an expansive 9.5-
acre campus in suburban
Hyderabad in close prox-
Simity to the University of
Hyderabad, is the mint-new CHIREC
International School (CIS). Estab-
lished in 2010 in its erstwhile Konda-
pur campus, CIS moved to a new
state-of-the-art campus last year.
Meanwhile, since it admitted its
first batch of students in Kondapur
in 2010, the school has established
a national reputation for providing
21st-century, technology-enabled ho-
listic education to its 2,528 students,
mentored by 244 highly qualified
teachers. In the EW India School
Rankings 2025-26 this pre-primary
till class XII school, affiliated with
the Cambridge (UK) and IB (Geneva)
exam boards, is routinely ranked
among India’s Top 10 and Hyder-
abad’s #1 international day school.
More recently, CIS was adjudged CIS new campus: technology enabled holistic education. Inset: Sanchita Raha
the International School of the Year
2025-26 and awarded a special prize academically but emotion- laboratories.
for Architecture and Design by an ally and socially as well. In Equally im-
EducationWorld Grand Jury. pursuance of our institu- pressive is the
Since it was promoted three tional belief that a happy school’s sports
decades ago, as a new-age preschool child is a successful learner, infrastructure,
offering globally inspired early child- we have instituted Cognita’s which show-
hood care and education, respond- Student Well-Being pro- cases Hyderabad’s
ing to insistent public demand, CIS gramme as a central pillar unprecedented el-
has evolved into a full-fledged K-12 of our pedagogy to cultivate evated sports deck
international day school by intro- a positive and child-centric spread across 4.5
ducing the Cambridge International learning environment,” says Ramesh Mudgal acres. Students
curriculum in 2009 and the IBDP Sanchita Raha, an alumna have the option
curriculum of the International Bac- of Calcutta and Jadavpur universi- to choose from an extensive range
calaureate in 2012. In 2019, CHIREC ties and highly respected Cambridge of 40 indoor and outdoor sports
schools including CIS were acquired and IB educator with teaching and disciplines. Outdoor sports facilities
by the UK-based Cognita Group, admin experience in diverse schools include an athletics track, football
which owns and operates 100 private in the Asia-Pacific region, who was field, cricket nets, five tennis courts,
schools in 21 countries worldwide. appointed principal of CIS in 2019, basketball and handball courts, ar-
“In CIS, our objective is to educate CIS’ new campus with a built- chery and air pistol shooting ranges,
the whole child in a framework that up area of 4.8 lakh sq. ft houses 94 a roller-skating rink, and dedicated
develops students’ capabilities for state-of-the-art classrooms equipped arenas for hockey and handball. The
their development into well-rounded with interactive boards and mobile indoor sports infrastructure includes
personalities. Our holistic learning laptop carts, designed to provide an badminton, volleyball, basketball
system sets quality benchmarks that engaging learning environment in and squash courts, table tennis, tae-
prepare our students for success which students have access to inno- kwondo, and gymnastics arenas.
in a dynamic, volatile global mar- vation labs, and secondary students Globally benchmarked academic
ketplace. In CIS, we believe deep avail an internationally bench- and sports programs are comple-
learning happens when students feel marked C-Hub Lab, complemented mented by a diverse range of co-
safe, supported, and valued, not just with nine well-equipped science curricular activities, with students

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