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Sreenidhi International School

The third full IB World School in Hyderabad after ISH and Aga Khan. Founded 2003 by the KMR Foundation on a 60-acre Moinabad campus. CIS and NEASC accredited. Day and boarding options including a 5-day boarding model.


Curriculum
IB
Ages
3 to 18
Founded
2003

The third full IB World School in Hyderabad after ISH and Aga Khan. Founded 2003 by the KMR Foundation on a 60-acre Moinabad campus. CIS and NEASC accredited. Day and boarding options including a 5-day boarding model.

Full IB continuum: Primary Years from nursery through Class 5, Middle Years through Class 10, and the Diploma Programme. Principal Ms Nancy Sanderson Swartz, with Mrs Ssarithha Katikaneni as Head of School. The 60-acre Aziznagar campus sits about 30 km southwest of central Hyderabad.

Sreenidhi pulls families looking for an established IB residential option without the Aga Khan Academy price band. The 5-day boarding model is the structural differentiator: students live at school during the week and return home weekends, which works for the western and southern Hyderabad commute geography. Public fee data is not consistently published; admission enquiries are required for current figures.


Families circle back to Sreenidhi as the affordable established-IB option, the school parents land on once ISH and Aga Khan price them out, and the weekday boarding is what they actually talk about: kids living on campus Monday to Friday and coming home weekends, which builds an unusually tight hostel community and the independence that comes with it. The campus does heavy lifting in how people describe the place, sixty green acres of sports grounds, pools and courts, with the coaching singled out more than the academics. The recurring worry is the location. Moinabad sits well out beyond the western suburbs and parents describe it as isolated after dark, with the practical fallout being a long daily car run for day families or a decision to board to skip the commute entirely.

Positives

  • Sports and campus. The sixty-acre campus and its sports provision come up more than anything else parents praise, with the pools, grounds and coaching named specifically and several families crediting visible gains in their child's confidence.
  • Boarding community. The weekday boarding model draws warm comment for the friendships and independence it builds; one former boarder put the lasting value of the school in the hostel life and the ability to make friends anywhere rather than in the classroom.
  • Value relative to the top IB tier. Parents weighing IB options consistently treat Sreenidhi as the sensible step down in price from International School of Hyderabad and Aga Khan Academy, the established residential IB choice that does not carry the top-tier fee band.

Considerations

  • Remote location and commute. The Moinabad campus is described as isolated at night and a long way out, with families advised to live towards Kokapet or Gachibowli and run kids in by private car, which pushes many towards boarding to avoid the daily drive.
  • IB delivery depends on the cohort. An early-cohort alum recalls the IB rollout being shaky, with faculty still learning the programme and few students converting to the full diploma; more recent staff accounts describe ongoing MYP training, so depth of IB delivery reads as variable rather than settled.
  • Settling in and staff churn. One parent review flags that newcomers can find it hard to make friends and suggests a child needs to arrive confident; staff-side comment points to changing management and heavy workload, hinting at turnover behind the scenes.

Leadership

Ms Nancy Sanderson Swartz

Accreditations

  • Council of International Schools 01
  • New England Association of Schools and Colleges 02

Aziznagar Village Rd, near TS Police Academy, Moinabad, Telangana 500075, India

School website