Foster Billabong High International School - Sainikpuri, Hyderabad

In brief

Foster Billabong High International School Sainikpuri is the Defence Colony satellite of the Saket main campus, opened 2012 under the Billabong High licence and run by Poosha Educational Society.

A CBSE day school with classes from Playgroup through Class 8, the Sainikpuri branch handles the early-years and middle-school cohort that feeds the full Saket high-school campus. British Council Accredited International School designation is shared with Saket. Some marketing surfaces reference an IB stream, though the school is not listed in the IBO authorised World Schools directory.

The Billabong High brand was established by Lina Ashar in 2003 and licensed to local operators across India; the Hyderabad licence sits with Poosha Educational Society. Independent parent commentary specific to the Sainikpuri branch is light; most reviews lump the two Foster Billabong campuses together. Published fee figures are sparse. The school reads as a feeder middle school rather than a destination senior site.

Reviews

What families say about the Sainikpuri campus runs warm but stays general. The recurring note from parents who have been through it is a caring, hands-on staff and a focus on the individual child, with activity-based learning and weak-spot support coming up more than exam drill. The structural shape colours everything: this branch stops at the middle years and the cohort moves on to the Saket campus for the senior grades, so the longer accounts of a full school journey belong to Saket, not here. The sharper edge sits on the staff side, where the workload and hours that teachers describe are heavy.

Positives

Caring, attentive teachers. Parents and former students repeatedly describe teachers as caring and approachable, and credit the school with giving individual attention rather than treating children as a number.
Activity-based learning. Families point to practical, activity-led lessons and teachers who work on a child's weak spots, valued more than rote preparation.

Considerations

A feeder middle school, not a destination. The Sainikpuri branch runs only through the middle years before children move to the Saket campus for senior school, so it reads as a stepping stone rather than a place a family settles for the full run.
Fees questioned for what is offered. Alongside the warm accounts, some families have called the fees high for a school that ends early and runs a generous holiday calendar, framing it as business-minded.
Heavy teacher workload. Staff accounts lean hard on long hours and a high-pressure load, with late finishes and work that spills past fixed school hours coming up more than once.

Location

Plot No 105, Defence Colony, Sainikpuri post, Secunderabad, Telangana 500094, India

School website

Mrs. Srilatha Channapragada