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The Shri Ram Academy - Hyderabad
The Shri Ram Academy (TSRA) is a 2022 IB World School in Gowlidoddy, Financial District.
In brief
The Shri Ram Academy (TSRA) is a 2022 IB World School in Gowlidoddy, Financial District. The school operates in partnership with Shri Educare Limited, the Delhi-based group behind the long-established Shri Ram Schools network. Head of School is Mohamed Rizwan, formerly seven years as Vice-Principal at Indus International School Hyderabad.
Full IB stack on a 9-acre lake-facing campus: PYP authorised, MYP in candidate phase, with IB Diploma and Career-related Programme at senior years. Dr Jyothi Reddy Ghanta sits across all the Shri Ram Hyderabad schools as Director of Education. The 1:10 teacher-student ratio is unusually low for the Hyderabad market.
Recognition is moving fast for a 2022 school: TSRA placed Rank 2 in India, Rank 1 in Telangana, and Rank 1 in Hyderabad in the CFORE 2024 Best Emerging International Schools rankings. Family commentary highlights faculty engagement and the studio-style classroom design; the school is too new for established critical patterns.
Reviews
Among Financial District families shopping the international-curriculum schools, TSRA comes up as a genuine contender rather than a name people warn each other off, but the conversation almost always lands on cost. Parents who have toured it describe an attentive, small-cohort feel and faculty who put real energy into the children, then in the same breath flag fees that sit at the top of the local range. A recurring point of confusion is sorting this IB academy from the separate, cheaper CBSE school that shares the Shri Ram name nearby.
Positives
- Attentive, small-cohort feel. With a small student body, families who have visited talk about close attention to each child and faculty who engage children through hands-on, creative work rather than rote teaching. The personal scale is the draw parents mention most.
- Faculty energy. Written parent feedback consistently praises supportive, compassionate teachers and a calm classroom atmosphere, with several crediting the staff for visible gains in a child's confidence after moving from a more pressured setting.
Considerations
- Fees sit at the top of the local range. Parents who enquired report quotes around 5 to 6 lakhs for Grade 1, which several describe as beyond their budget. It reads as one of the pricier international options in the Financial District, and cost is the first thing families raise about it.
- Confused with the CBSE namesake. Families repeatedly mix TSRA up with The Shri Ram Universal School, a separate and cheaper CBSE school in the same part of the city. The two are distinct, and the IB academy is the considerably more expensive of the pair.
- Short track record. Opened in 2022 with a small enrolment, so it shows up on parent shortlists as a promising option still being weighed against more established names rather than one with years of outcomes behind it.
Leadership
Mohamed Rizwan
Accreditations
- Council of International Schools 01
Location
beside Srija Hospital, Padmasree Gardens, Gowlidoddy, Hyderabad, Telangana 500032, India