Community
Where they went next
The useful measure of a school is not where its best student ended up. It is what the median student was able to do, and whether any of them wanted to come back.
- Placements tracked
- 300+
- First cohort
- Class of 2004
- Alumni teaching here
- 11 Saturday clubs
Destinations
Where recent cohorts went
Aggregated across the last five graduating years. Deliberately shown as a distribution rather than as a handful of standout names.
- IIT (various campuses)34
- BITS Pilani28
- NIT (various campuses)41
- Osmania & JNTU Hyderabad96
- Medical colleges (NEET route)52
- National Institute of Design9
- Universities abroad23
- Liberal arts (Ashoka, Krea, FLAME)17
Success stories
Eight alumni, and what they say mattered
Note how few of them credit a lesson. Almost all of them credit something that happened around the edges of one.
Rohit Varma Datla
Product Designer · Bengaluru
Ran the annual day sound desk for three years and was never a top-ten student. The reference letter his principal wrote about the sound desk is what got him his first internship.
Anjum Sultana
Registrar · NIMS Hyderabad
Says the habit she still uses daily is the Class 9 requirement to defend an argument out loud in front of thirty people who were allowed to disagree.
Karthikeya Sampath Vemula
Structural Engineer · IIT Madras, then Chennai
Built a bridge model in the Class 8 investigation that collapsed twice before it held. Says the collapses were the useful part.
Nidhi Bandaru
Doctoral researcher, climate science · Indian Institute of Science
Started the borewell water-quality dataset as a Class 7 Eco Club project. It is still running, maintained by students six years later.
Sana Fatima Qureshi
Assistant Commissioner · Indian Revenue Service
Captained Kaveri house through a losing streak that is still going. Credits the experience with more than she credits any lesson.
Aditya Narayan Reddy
Founder, agritech startup · Hyderabad
Failed his Class 9 mid-terms badly, was put on the weekly tutorial system, and describes that year as the one where he learned how to work.
Meghana Sri Chintalapudi
Carnatic vocalist and music teacher · Chennai
Learned in the Siksha practice rooms on a school-issued instrument because her family did not own one. Now teaches here two Saturdays a term.
Vikram Iyer Subramanian
Software Engineer · BITS Pilani, then Bengaluru
Was in the first cohort to have robotics on the timetable rather than as a club, which he says decided his degree.
In their words
Looking back
I was not a topper. I was the kid who ran the annual day sound desk. Siksha treated that as a real skill, and the reference letter my principal wrote about it is what got me my first internship.
Ten years on, the thing I still use daily is the Class 9 habit of having to defend an argument out loud in front of thirty people who were allowed to disagree with me.
What alumni actually do here
Eleven of our Saturday clubs are taught by former students. Alumni judge the science exhibition, which is why the judging panel contains no teachers. Several come back to talk to Class 10 about the year after school, including — deliberately — the ones whose path did not go smoothly.
Register your interest
If you were a student here and want to be on the alumni list, or to offer an hour a term to a Saturday club, write to the school office. There is no formal association and no membership fee, which is deliberate.
Alumni
Come back and teach something
An hour a term is genuinely useful. So is twenty minutes talking honestly to Class 10 about the year after school.
Prefer to talk to someone? Call the admissions office on +91 89 7788 1200, weekdays 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM.