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Looking for a School in Bangalore for your child? Like any other fast growing city in India, Bangalore has a dearth of established schools. The established schools are far, few, expensive and unavailable. School admission is a dreaded nightmare for people moving to Bangalore from other cities/countries for work.
Accessibility to schools has taken a new meaning in Bangalore where the kids might have to travel more than an hour one way to the school.
The schools can now be broadly classified into 2 categories:
1. The old reputed ones: Like Bishop Cottons or Frank Anthony Public school
2. The new age schools: These have come up recently. The teaching methodology is more practical and interactive. They are a lot more relaxed and the kids enjoy going to these schools and not cry like we used to do!
The advantages of the old and famous ones is that, they have been around for such a long time, they are reputed and mostly as a parent you won't go wrong in putting your child there. Disadvantage being, your kid will not enjoy going to that school. Another disadvantage is the class size: min 60-65 kids in a class!
The biggest advantage of the new age school is that they are a lot more relaxed and most of the kids love to go to the school (to the extent that they don't like holidays). The class size is also a lot more reasonable: 25 to max 35 kids in a class and 2 teachers in pre-primary. The disadvantage being, they are still at budding stage. Which means, some may not have all the infrastructure that they have committed, some may have issues with teachers resigning too frequently, some may not be able to do full justice as far as academics is concerned especially in higher secondary classes sheerly due to less experience as compared to the old ones.
Age Cut-off: This is commonly asked by people seeking admission for their kids. Interestingly the age cut-off date for the admission varies from school to school. But in most cases, the child should have completed 6 years by June to Octobor to get admission in 1st standard. Again some schools are more strict than others in adhering to the cut-off date.
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Results of school research by one person who moved to Bangalore from US. Do read the comments as lots of interesting information is available there.
A systematic website that gives information about Bangalore schools.
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There are several schools approachable from ORR. Many of these schools are new, and hence, are going through teething problems. Some schools are established and have been around for sometime. But getting admission there is tough.
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BRS Global Centre For Excellence
#15/3, Kasavanahalli, Sarjapur Main Road,
Near Amrita School of engineering,
Bangalore-560035
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Koramangala is the original IT hub of Bangalore and now considered the most happening place. It was the first area to come up as the preferred location for the IT professionals, especialy who moved from different cities/countries. Inspite of this, there are limited schools there as most of the new age schools are on the ORR, Sarjapur road due to availability of land.
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Indiranagar is another beautiful/happening area and it also has a good number of new age schools where today's parents prefer sending their children.
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Here is a broad but not complete list of the old and famous convent schools. Most of these are in the main city areas like st. marks road, richmond road, residency road etc. These schools have been around for a very long time and follow the conventional teaching methodology. The biggest concerns for putting the kids there would be the class size (almost 60 kids in a class), high pressure environment and lack of freedom of expression for the kids (due to which they hate going to school)
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There are only few truly International schools in Bangalore which offer IGCSE syllabus. Here a few of them are listed. Some of them also follow the US calendar academic cycle of August to June.
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