The oldest public school in Telangana, Hyderabad Public School (HPS) at Begumpet, will soon have three more campuses, out of which one will come up overseas.
While the foundation stone for a new campus will be laid on 53 acres of land in Warangal in the coming months, an HPS that follows CBSE curriculum will come up close to the school’s original campus in Begumpet within two years. The third campus, which is meant to offer education for Indian students abroad, is still in the proposal stage, even as the board of directors have in principle agreed on the same.
In HPS-Warangal, classes will commence for the academic year 2016-17 from a temporary building that will be taken on lease. Later, the society that runs the school will develop the land into a full fledged campus, officials explained. The admission process for classes I to V of this branch will start in December and lessons will begin in April 2016. The new campus in Begumpet could also offer International Baccalaureate (IB) syllabus in classes XI and XII, apart from CBSE curriculum from I to X, authorities said.
The school, which started functioning in 1923 as a Jagirdar’s college during the reign of the VII Nizam, Mir Osman Ali Khan, currently has two branches, one in Ramanthapur and the other in Kadapa. The main campus in Begumpet that follows ISCE curriculum houses 3,100 students and the CBSE school in Ramanthapur has 1,800 students. The recently established HPS in Kadapa has 500 students.
“We are thinking of expansion to further widen the scope of HPS in the coming years. We have reached our full capacity in Hyderabad and are on our way to branching out further,” said a senior official of Hyderabad Public School Society. HPS-Warangal will have a capacity of 1,500 students even as the new campus to come up in Begumpet would house 1,000 students. Hyderabad Public School society, which is currently managing campuses after abolition of the Jagirdar system in 1950, is also looking at increasing the student strength of Kadapa campus by 1,000.
HPS, which has ‘Shaheen’ or the Eagle as its emblem, had earlier produced several eminent figures including politicians and renowned IAS officers. The school was one among the first to implement reservation and financial aid for students coming from weaker sections.
“Even in the new institutions, we expect to find and promote local talent,” said Faiz Khan, secretary of the HPS Society.
In Warangal, classes will commence for 2016-17 from a temporary building that will be taken on lease
