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Solitaire Global Schools - Attapur
Solitaire Global Schools Attapur is the original campus of the SGS group, founded June 2017 by Mir Murtuza Ali.
In brief
Solitaire Global Schools Attapur is the original campus of the SGS group, founded June 2017 by Mir Murtuza Ali. Pure Cambridge curriculum from Primary through A Levels on a 3-plus-acre Upperpally site, with Daniyal Murtuza Ali as group Dean. Member of AFS Intercultural Programs and MISA.
Full Cambridge stack: Primary, Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary (IGCSE), and Cambridge Advanced (AS/A Levels). Sister Katedan campus opened alongside. Group cohort sits at around 1,500 students with roughly 200 teachers at a 1:30 ratio. The school built its own online learning platform (SI Learner's Hub) during the COVID lockdown.
Parent reviews divide cleanly. Positive accounts emphasise the pure-Cambridge focus, qualified teachers, the extracurricular range (coding, AI, public speaking, sports, swimming), and the parent app for daily school updates. Critical accounts cite high fees relative to facility maintenance, communication breakdowns, unusual fees-handling demands (including post-dated checks), and at least one cluster of complaints about drinking-water quality.
Reviews
What families say about the Attapur campus pulls in two directions, and the line between the two accounts runs through the staffroom. The warm reports describe teachers who are kind and well organised, a teaching style parents call fabulous, and a Cambridge stream that keeps children stretched. The unhappy reports describe inexperienced staff, thin assessment that makes it hard to track where a child actually stands, and a sense that the fee buys less than it should once the add-on charges land. Both versions come from parents with children currently in the building, so a tour that lands you with a strong teacher and one that lands you with a weak one can produce very different years. Faith accommodation comes up separately: at least one family looking at A Levels walked away after finding no room in the day for a short prayer.
Positives
- Teaching when it lands well. The happiest accounts describe teachers as kind, caring and well organised, with a teaching style parents single out as a reason their children settled and stayed.
- Cambridge breadth and activities. Parents who rate the school point to the full Cambridge stream paired with a wide co-curricular spread, swimming, skating, football, basketball and public speaking among the things children get time on.
Considerations
- Teacher quality is uneven. For every account praising the staff there is one calling teachers inexperienced and unhelpful, so which teacher a child draws seems to shape the year more than the brand does.
- Weak student assessment. A recurring complaint is that evaluation is light to the point that families struggle to see where their child genuinely stands academically.
- Fees against what arrives. Critics say the headline fee is steep and then extras get charged on top of it, with the upkeep of the building and amenities not always matching what is being paid.
- Payment terms feel heavy-handed. Some parents describe being pushed to hand over post-dated cheques covering the whole year's fees up front, which several found an uncomfortable way to be asked for money.
- Prayer accommodation. One family weighing the senior Cambridge years cancelled their admission after concluding the school made no space in the day for a child to pray, a point that does not surface in the school's own materials.
Location
Sri Sai, Janachaitanya Colony Rd, Sri Sai Janachithanya Colony, Golden Heights Colony, Upperpally, Hyderabad, Telangana 500048, India