Sharanya Narayani International School, Bangalore

Within a short span of four years, this day-cum-boarding school affiliated with the most respected international exam boards has quickly made a favourable impression on the parents community of the IT city

- SHRADDHA GOLED

SITED ON A SPRAWLING 60-acre campus shaded by eucalyptus groves in east Bangalore’s fast growing industrial suburb of Hoskote, the new-age Sharanya Narayani International School (SNIS, estb.2015) had several good reasons to celebrate its fourth anniversary on July 1.

The school’s first batch of class X students to write the IGCSE (class X) exam of the Cambridge Assessment International Education, UK, recorded excellent grades with 60 percent awarded A and A*.

Moreover, within a short span of four years, this K-12 day-cum-boarding school affiliated with Cambridge International, UK and International Baccalaureate (IB), Geneva — the world’s most respected international school-leaving exam boards — has quickly made a favourable impression on the hi-tech garden city’s upwardly mobile parents community — mainly engaged in new digital technologies — for providing rigorous academics, international pedagogies, excellent pastoral care, sports and co-curricular education to 260 students including 120 girls and 80 boarders. SNIS is ranked among India’s Top 15 international day-cum-boarding schools and #6 in Karnataka and Bangalore in the latest EducationWorld India School Rankings 2019-20.

SNIS is promoted by the Narayani Group of Educational Institutions Charitable Trust registered in 2012 by B.A. Gopala Reddy, a real estate entrepreneur and family, to commemorate the memory of their matriarch, the late