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Glendale International School - Financial District
Glendale International School Financial District is the group's dedicated Cambridge-track campus, positioned in the Financial District area of Gachibowli. Part of Glendale (founded 2003 by Anjum Babukhan; acquired by Global Schools Foundation in 2023).
In brief
Glendale International School Financial District is the group's dedicated Cambridge-track campus, positioned in the Financial District area of Gachibowli. Part of Glendale (founded 2003 by Anjum Babukhan; acquired by Global Schools Foundation in 2023).
The Financial District site differentiates from Glendale's other Hyderabad campuses by focusing on Cambridge curriculum delivery: Cambridge Primary, Lower Secondary, IGCSE and AS/A Levels. Amy Kember heads the campus.
The Financial District / Gachibowli location puts the school in the city's IT corridor, alongside CHIREC, Indus Primary and Sancta Maria. The campus is the youngest of the Glendale Hyderabad cluster and was built to absorb the city's Cambridge-track demand. Public fee data is not consistently published; admission enquiries are required for current figures.
Reviews
Families weighing this Cambridge campus tend to land on the same handful of specifics. The everyday experience reads warmly: staff and the principal are easy to reach, and parents say they always know how their child is doing. Set against that is a steady worry about who is actually in the classroom. Reports of teachers leaving in clusters, complete with batches of transfer-certificate requests, recur, and some families question whether the teaching staff are genuinely trained on the Cambridge syllabus. The pattern is of a young campus still settling its faculty rather than a school with a long track record to point to.
Positives
- Approachable staff and principal. Parents repeatedly single out how easy it is to reach teachers, admin, and the principal, with frequent and open parent-to-teacher communication described as a genuine strength.
Considerations
- Teacher turnover. Families talk about teachers leaving this branch in waves, with clusters of transfer-certificate requests, and the same churn shows up in older accounts of frequent class-teacher exits.
- Cambridge delivery and staff training. Some parents and alumni question whether the teaching staff are properly Cambridge or IGCSE trained, and complain that classes are not always run consistently, with marketing and admissions events sometimes taking priority over teaching days.
- Perception after the ownership change. A recurring note across local discussion is unease that the school has slipped since the group changed hands, with several voices saying it is not regarded as strongly as it once was. This runs across the Glendale cluster rather than this campus alone.
- Fees relative to value. Fees are talked about as on the higher side, and noticeably so since the takeover, though some parents feel the facilities and exposure justify the cost.
Leadership
Amy Kember
Location
3-109, Gopan Pally, Journalists Colony Phase 3, Gachibowli, Nallagandla, Hyderabad, Telangana 500075