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Oasis International School

Oasis International School is a 1964 Shaikpet institution founded by the late Sri B.L. Narayana, running CBSE alongside the full Cambridge Primary through IGCSE stack, with Usha Karumathil as Principal of the Raidurg flagship.

Oasis International School campus
Oasis International School, Shaikpet. Photograph · School

Curriculum
Indian
Fees, annual
INR 72k–120k
Ages
3 to 15
Founded
1964

Oasis International School is a 1964 Shaikpet institution founded by the late Sri B.L. Narayana, running CBSE alongside the full Cambridge Primary through IGCSE stack, with Usha Karumathil as Principal of the Raidurg flagship.

Six decades on the Old Mumbai Highway site near Rai Durg; the campus carries a recording studio, AV room, two teacher resource centres, science and language labs, an auditorium, an art gallery, and a basement physical-fitness floor. Nursery through Class 10 across CBSE and Cambridge tracks with a 30:1 student-teacher ratio. National Cadet Corps participation is foregrounded as a distinctive discipline-and-citizenship pillar alongside academics.

Monthly fees run from about 6,000 INR at Nursery to 10,000 INR at Class 10, putting annual figures in the 72,000 to 1,20,000 INR band. Parent commentary on the Cambridge stream foregrounds engaging delivery and observed subject-understanding gains. Critical accounts cite admission-fee retention after rejection and neighbourhood noise during exam season. The 1964 founding date makes this one of the oldest continuously operating schools in west Hyderabad.


Families on the Cambridge side tend to be the warmest, talking about a change they can see in how a child grasps subjects rather than just marks on a report. Much of the goodwill attaches to named people, the annual-day productions and the coordinators who walk parents through admission, more than to the building itself. The recurring snag sits at the front door rather than inside the classroom: the entrance test and the non-refundable admission payment are remembered as a sore point by families whose child was turned away.

Positives

  • Cambridge stream and concept teaching. Parents of children in the Cambridge track describe an engaging way of teaching that translated into a visible jump in their child's understanding across subjects, and call the teachers clear on concepts.
  • Events and named staff. Annual-day and drama productions land well with families, with specific teachers and admission coordinators singled out by name for guiding children and parents through the year.
  • Discipline and pastoral feel. Day-to-day satisfaction comes up often, with parents crediting dedicated staff, a structured emphasis on discipline, and a focus on children settling in and enjoying school.

Considerations

  • Sports provision. Even among happy parents, the common caveat is that sports get less attention than academics, with the play area described as cramped and the wish for more on-field activity.
  • Admission test and retained fee. The sharpest complaint is structural: a child sat the entrance test, was rejected for a class place, and the family found the admission payment was not returned, which parents read as charging up front and then screening for stronger pupils.
  • Communication and front-office manner. Some families describe patchy follow-through and a brusque tone from the office around enrolment, with the application process flagged as short on transparency.

Leadership

Usha Karumathil


6-27, Old Mumbai Hwy, Ambedkar Nagar, Shaikpet, Rai Durg, Hyderabad, Telangana 500104, India

School website