Know the Top 5 Schools, Their Facilities and Fees!

Bangalore has always been a few years ahead of the Indian metropolitan cities. This started back in the 1980s when Texas Instruments decided to set up its facilities in the city. After that, you could say that things just got set in motion and many other companies decided to invest here. Bangalore was long favored for its consistent and easy weather. It is, after all, located atop the Mysore Plateau. 

As it became the IT hub of the country, families, and professionals began moving in from all over the country to establish residence for a long term. This, in return, aincreased the demand for all sorts of facilities in the country. Restaurants, hotels, companies, start-ups, schools, hospitals and all sorts of services and facilities began popping up making the city more efficient than before. In fact, the population of Bangalore now is 3 times that it was in the 1980s, currently being around 13 million inhabitants.

Without further adieu, let us move on to the reason you are actually here for-

1. GIIS (Global Indian International School) 
If we are talking about an international school in Bangalore, you cannot move ahead without talking about this particular school. It has campuses across 7 different countries including Thailand, Vietnam, India, Malaysia, Singapore, the UAE, and Japan. It offers multiple curricula with a very unique curriculum being the GMP or the Global Montessori Plus program which is designed for nursery children by improving the Montessori methods through modern means. They also offer a specific framework of education called the 9GEMS™ holistic education framework which improves the personality of students by tweaking areas like Academic excellence, Sports excellence, Visual & Performing arts, Personality Development, Innovation & Creativity, Entrepreneurship & Leadership, Universal values & Ethics, Community & Care and Skill Development.

Fees & Facilities
It has 2 campuses in Bangalore, one in Whitefield and the other in Bannerghatta. The latter offers classes up to standard 8 while the former till standard 12, making it understandable why parents prefer the former. The fees, depending on standard and choice of stream among science, arts and commerce can range from 1.2 LPA to 2.2 LPA which is pretty low in comparison with other international schools.

When it comes to facilities offered, this international school and also the Bangalore primary school, have a skating rink, a football ground, basketball court, badminton court, indoor sports arena, a Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Universal Values, an IT Centre, kid's pool, play area, Art and Craft lab, Montessori Lab, a Maths Lab, and an infirmary.

2. The International School Bangalore
The architecture of this school and their method of interaction with the students will make you feel like you are in an English country. At the same time, they are heavily reliant on technology in order to provide the students the best possible experience. They offer multiple curricula as well.

Fees & Facilities
It is located in South Bangalore in Sarjapur close to GIIS. Its fee is around 5 LPA depending on the grades. It offers facilities such as transport, cafeteria, medical care, amphitheater, convention center, gym, and art studios.

3. Candor International School
Candor is located in Electronic City and is spread across 25 acres. It offers the IB curriculum for nursery children among Bangalore primary school & high school and the IGCSE curriculum for middle or primary school. This mix gives children more knowledge through various internationally inspired learning methodologies. It has infrastructure that extends from smart classrooms to modern labs and sports facilities.

Fees & Facilities
The fees for Candor is around 3.8 - 4 LPA depending on the grade levels. As for its facilities, it offers day-cum-boarding, a digital library, a tuck shop or cafeteria, medical care, and AC buses for day students.

4. Oakridge International School
If you happen to visit this school while on your school hunt, you will definitely not be able to miss its unique architecture. It has a curved dome in the shape of a sine wave or a normal distribution (you may google what a normal distribution curve looks like). It has a high focus on the IB programs. It would be nice to note that it has 5 more campuses across India. 

Fees & Facilities
It is located in South Bangalore in Sarjapur and its fee is about 2.5 LPA which again is not too high. It offers facilities like smart classrooms, an antechamber, auditorium, art center among others.

5. Stonehill International School
Located in northern Bangalore, it is only 20 minutes away from the airport and is a 34-acre campus with facilities like day-cum-residential among other services. It has a diverse faculty that follows the IB Curriculum in its entirety. Its faculty is varied and brings in a lot of value because children learn about different cultures and develop their confidence in the process.

Fees & Facilities
The annual fee at Stone Hill International School is high among international schools in Bangalore with its fees coming to around 9 LPA. However, the facilities offered are also more and they try their best to maintain high quality. Among their facilities, they stand out with their 24/7 medical care facilities and high-end equipment among all other facilities that an international school should offer.

With all this information, I am sure that now you have an idea with which you can make a faster decision. Do check the websites of all these schools in order to get a detailed breakdown of information.