Promoted in 2004, this day-cum-boarding international school has earned a national reputation for providing ICT-enabled holistic education rooted in Indian traditions to 5,000 students mentored by 421 teachers

GWHIS campus vista: Karnataka’s #1 day-cum-boarding school

Spread over a meticulously landscaped, pollution-free 38-acre campus in Bengaluru, the IT city of India, Greenwood High International School (GWHIS, estb.2004) is a new-genre co-educational K-12 school affiliated with the CISCE (Delhi), Cambridge International (UK) and International Baccalaureate (Geneva) exam boards. Over two decades this day-cum-boarding international school has earned a national reputation for providing contemporary ICT (Information Communication Technologies) enabled holistic education rooted in Indian traditions to 5,000 students mentored by 421 teachers. In the latest EducationWorld India School Rankings 2025-26, GWHIS is ranked among India’s Top 3 and Karnataka’s #1 international day-cum-boarding school.

Promoted in 2004 by the Greenwood High Trust chaired by Bijay Agarwal, a first-generation entrepreneur and founder of the hugely successful Sattva Group, a premium real estate development and consultancy organisation, the school’s objective is “to build  a world-class  institution for preparing youth to become physically active, free thinking, and socially responsible global citizens by unlocking their intellectual, aesthetic, moral, physical, and emotional potential”. The Bengaluru-based Greenwood High Trust also runs and manages six preschools and a K-12 school in the Bannerghatta suburb of south Bengaluru with an aggregate enrolment of 9,000 students.

Since it was established 22 years ago, the management of this highly ranked school has invested liberally in contemporary academic facilities. The globally benchmarked, Indian Green Building Council-certified K-12 campus features manicured lawns, open courtyards and two ergonomically designed self-contained blocks (national and international) providing a stimulating and enabling learning environment for students and teachers. Academic infrastructure includes over 200 hi-tech classrooms, seven science, 12 computer, math, robotics and language labs where students study French, Spanish, German and English, and eight multimedia rooms. The school’s modern library houses over 50,000 print volumes, electronic resources with wi-fi access and three dedicated e-classrooms for research. Boarders are separately housed in separate male and female residential blocks with two-three students per room. These houses can accommodate over 100 students. All students are provided meals in two separate multi-cuisine cafeterias with a seating capacity of 1,800.

Niru Agarwal

“Greenwood’s educational philosophy is built on a foundation of freshness in approach, openness of inquiry, and breadth of study. Our goal is to provide our students a well-rounded education that nurtures intellectual curiosity, creativity, emotional balance, and develops social responsibility. Our students and teachers also benefit from cross-learning and sharing between CISCE, IB and Cambridge sections,” says Niru Agarwal, Managing Trustee.

With the school’s management committed to dispensing balanced education to students, passion meets purpose in sports education. Greenwood’s sports program is delivered by a team of 45 experts and qualified coaches, supported by world-class infrastructure that inspires young athletes to dream big. Students train on two turf and grass football fields, indoor and outdoor basketball courts, two tennis courts, two swimming pools, and specialised facilities including a shooting range, squash court, yoga studio, strength and conditioning gym, technology-enabled chess rooms, and a state-of-the-art simulated golf program.

The school’s co-curricular activity menu includes vocal and instrumental Western/Indian music, art and crafts, drama, dance, public speaking, MUN, debate, quiz, wushu supported by an open-air amphitheatre. “We accord equal importance to co-curricular education which is integrated into the curriculum. A comprehensive education experience which blends academic rigour with sports, co-curricular, and community service is critical for nurturing socially responsible individuals,” says Agarwal

Responding to demand from expatriates and the NRI communities in Bengaluru, GWHIS introduced the IGCSE curriculum of Cambridge International (UK) and the IBDP program of the Geneva-based International Baccalaureate in 2009 and 2011 respectively. Of the 5,000 students currently on the school’s rolls, 3,700 are in the CISCE section and 1,300 follow curriculums of the two offshore examination boards.

Unsurprisingly, professional development of GWHIS’ 421 teachers is a top priority of the management with teachers obliged to undergo continuous in-service training. This emphasis on professional development of teachers and holistic education of students has paid off handsomely with students recording excellent results in school-leaving exams. Of the 109 students who wrote the 2025 ISC (class XII) exam, 59 averaged 90 percent-plus scores with the topper Arnay Gupta averaging 99.5 percent. In the 2025 ICSE (class X) exam, topper Swarna Chaudhary, Aanya P. Minnamareddy & Raghav Dixit averaged 99.6 percent.

In the rigorous school-leaving global exam of the International Baccalaureate, the 2025 IBDP topper Rishikesh Madhuvairy scored 45/45 points and over 27 percent of the cohort scored above 40 points. Moreover, ten Cambridge (UK) board students scored 9A* and 8 scored 8A*s in the IGCSE exam. As a result, university placements of the IB class of 2025 were exceptional, with students admitted into top-ranked foreign institutions including Rice University, Johns Hopkins University (USA), Imperial College London, University of Cambridge, London School of Economics (UK) and top Indian institutions such as IITs, IIIT, NLSIU, Ashoka University, NIFT among others.

After successfully establishing its second school in south Bengaluru a decade ago, the Greenwood Group is set to inaugurate a third campus in Hennur, north Bengaluru. “We are in the process of constructing an independent campus for ICSE and international streams to be ready in 2027.” says Niru Agarwal.

ADMISSION & FEES

Greenwood High International School, Sarjapur is a co-educational class I-XII day-cum-boarding school affiliated with the Delhi-based CISCE, IB, Geneva and Cambridge International, UK. Applications for admission into all classes are accepted in September.

Tuition fees (per year): CISCE (K-class XII): Rs.3-5 lakh;

Cambridge (class IX-X): Rs. 6-8 lakh; IBDP (classes XI-XII):

Rs.9-10 lakh

Boarding fees: Rs 2.5 lakh

For further information, contact Cecil John Ph: 9740987029; e-mail: [email protected]

Website: www.greenwoodhigh.edu.in