Ranked among India’s top 20 day schools, an outward-looking K-12 school, CHIREC School, Hyderabad offers best global pedagogies rooted in Indian values, has much cause to celebrate its silver jubilee next year Sited on a compact six-acre campus in Kondapur, a stone’s throw from Hyderabad’s Hi-tech City — the city’s IT and financial hub — and next door to the scenic Botanical Gardens, the low-profile CHIREC (Children’s Recreation Centre, estb. 1989) School has earned itself a well-deserved reputation within the city’s cognoscenti for providing contemporary ICT-enabled K-12 education supplemented with a plethora of co-curricular and sports activities. This class I-XII CBSE, CIE (UK), and IBO (Geneva)-affiliated co-educational day school is consistently top-ranked among India’s day schools. In 2011, CHIREC School, Hyderabad was ranked among the top 25 day schools in India in the EducationWorld India School Rankings and last year (2012) it was ranked #17 all-India and #5 in Andhra Pradesh. Currently CHIREC has 3,112 students and 303 teachers on its muster rolls. While CHIREC’s main campus is at Kondapur, its pre-primary feeder school is sited in Jubilee Hills and another pre-primary-primary branch in Gachibowli. “The objective behind the promotion of the integrated CHIREC was to establish a world-class K-12 school offering best global teaching practices but rooted in Indian values and traditions,” says Ratna D. Reddy, founder-director of CHIREC, who completed her Masters in early childhood education from Iowa University, USA. In 1989 she invested Rs.8 lakh to promote the first pre-primary school — a new age preschool offering academics, sports, and performing and creative arts under the same roof. Reddy registered CHIREC Educational Society in 1996 to promote CHIREC, Kondapur in the same year. Since then, the management of this highly rated K-12 school has invested heavily in contemporary academic and sports facilities. The wi-fi enabled campus hosts four self contained blocks with 90 spacious and digitally equipped classrooms, well-stocked libraries, state-of-the-art computer and language labs, art and craft, painting, and music rooms, and dining facilities. Moreover the international section (aka CHIREC Cambridge) houses 27 classrooms, a multipurpose hall, biology, physics, chemistry, computer science, and home science laboratories, art, music, pottery, resource, and language rooms apart from a well-stocked library. A fleet of 70 buses equipped with safety and speed tracking systems transport children and staff to and from school. “Over the past 24 years Chirec has evolved into a world-class institution offering excellent academic and co-curricular education with strong emphasis on values and life skills development. That’s why our students not only do well in board examinations but also win prestigious scholarships and laurels in sports and extra-curricular activities. We are committed to producing critical thinkers, high achievers, team players, and compassionate and responsible individuals who can assume leadership positions anywhere in the world. Our alumni are accepted into premier universities such as MIT, Stanford, London School of Economics as well as top institutions in India,” says Iffat Ibrahim, principal of CHIREC’s CBSE section. A science alumna of Delhi University with over two decades of experience in…
