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Candiidus International School
Candiidus International School is a Cambridge-plus-CBSE day-and-boarding school on a Patancheruvu campus near ORR Exit 3 in Sangareddy district, with Aruna Muddana as Principal.
In brief
Candiidus International School is a Cambridge-plus-CBSE day-and-boarding school on a Patancheruvu campus near ORR Exit 3 in Sangareddy district, with Aruna Muddana as Principal.
Cambridge Primary, Lower Secondary, and IGCSE alongside CBSE, roughly 1,000 students from EY1 through Grade 12. The campus carries a semi-Olympic swimming pool, music studio, language labs, internationally certified science setup, and a 10M shooting range. Olympic-standard sports infrastructure is the school's headline marketing pitch. Separate boys' and girls' hostels make this one of the few residential options in the Sangareddy stretch outside the city.
Annual fee runs about 2 lakh INR with separate transport, application, and security charges layered on top. Parent commentary volume is light. The available pool reads positively on the balance between academics and sport and on front-office responsiveness, but lacks enough range to surface specific criticism. The school markets an IB Diploma offering on some marketing surfaces, while its own accreditations-and-affiliations page lists only Cambridge International and CBSE. The actual senior-school offer is worth confirming directly with admissions.
Reviews
Families who have settled in tend to talk about the day-to-day feel more than the headline facilities. The recurring note is that staff and front office treat parents as collaborators rather than customers, and that children come home as engaged with the sports side as the academic one. The sourest theme is the bus operation, which a number of parents describe as run for margin rather than for the children riding it.
Positives
- Respectful, accessible staff. Parents describe being treated with respect by teachers and the front office, with a collaborative rather than transactional tone, and children who read as happy and settled day to day.
- Sport and academics in balance. Families report children doing well academically while making real progress on the sports side, and credit the school for giving athletics genuine weight alongside the classroom rather than treating it as decoration.
Considerations
- Transport runs like a business. The bus service draws the most consistent complaint, with parents describing it as unsatisfactory and run more for margin than as a service built around the children using it.
Leadership
Ms. Aruna Muddana
Ms. Aruna Muddana is a seasoned education leader, dedicated to creating a future-focused, inclusive, and inspiring learning environment. With extensive experience across international and national curricula including the International Baccalaureate, Cambridge International Education and Central Board of Secondary Education, she aims to nurture curious, confident, and compassionate learners prepared to thrive in a global context.