Indus International School Bangalore

One of Bangalore's longest-running full-IB continuum schools, on a 40-acre campus at Sarjapur with a genuine boarding component. Around 1,100 students from 30-plus nationalities, with roughly a third living on campus.

The combination of full IB (PYP, MYP, DP) and serious boarding capacity is unusual in Bangalore and is the main reason the school comes up for relocating expat families and for Indian families wanting weekly or full boarding. Sport and outdoor facilities including horse riding, swimming, and large playing fields are part of what fees buy.

The recurring praise from parents is around teacher quality and the IB delivery in the senior years, particularly the leadership programme that runs alongside academics. The recurring complaint is around school management responsiveness and operational issues, which the school has acknowledged in public replies. A premium-fee option that earns its price for families who want IB plus boarding on a single campus.

• Indus International is one of Bangalore's most-named IB and Cambridge options, sitting alongside TISB and Greenwood High in parent shortlists. Around 1,100 students from 33 nationalities, with roughly 30 per cent boarding on the Sarjapur campus.
• Yellow Slate carries 160 reviews averaging 4.1, with the lowest sub-score on teaching excellence at 3.0; Cfore has ranked the school first in its day-cum-boarding category in repeated years.
• The headline parent concern is welfare. One parent wrote that "bullying was off the charts at the school. The staff were unconcerned and only cared about academics," and pulled their 12-year-old boarder after one semester.
• Other parents go further on boarding, including an account of a boarder with an asthma attack being told to find his own accommodation in Bangalore. Other reviewers describe a culture where students feel treated as fee revenue.
• Teachers rate the school at 2.7 with 45 per cent recommending it. Recurring complaints describe autocratic management, heavy workload, no work-life balance and primary teachers eating lunch with students rather than taking breaks; pluses cited are competitive pay, training and campus quality.
• Bridge programmes for incoming IB students and a long IB track record remain genuine strengths. The negative pattern is not academic outcomes but how the school handles conflict, welfare and staff.