I was looking for an adimission to 2nd Grade future kids school, Gachibowli/Nanakramguda Hyderabad for 2016 but pulled off in the last minute due to unavoidable personal reasons. I would like to provide my quick review so that it might be usefull for you.
Curriculum & Teaching techniques - 5 starts - ICSE and very impressive. The vice principle Ms. Shailaja was very thorough, professional patient in explaining the methodology to us. The kids also seemed very free, lively and natural at the campus which is how it should be. No pressure environment.
People - 5 stars. everyone is so helpful, soft and keen and thorough. Very good!
Fees - 5 stars - Appx. 1.3 lakhs per year including Food and Transport. Reasonable for a school in Metro cities. No complaints atleast from me. books, sports, uniforms etc - additional anyway
Admission Fees - 1 star - 90 thousand - Not many schools charge this amount. not sure of the rationale they use.
Sports - i heard the school does well in this area with famous coaches in Basketball. The grounds (or whatever are called that way) are not well maintained, except for the concrete basketball court.
Infrastructure - 0 stars - Ground, buildings (they are literal sheds build with solid cement blocks and no concrete roof or proper finishing. Check in Google with a keen eye), painting, peripheral walls, water dispensers, benches, grass, class rooms. you name it - everything is sub standard. :-( School shies to run in 3 trucks of gravel to level the grounds after 90k admission fees. This is a major turnoff in an otherwise excellent setup.
I strongly suggest the administration to take a guided tour of other reasonably reputed schools in much lesser fee range.
FKS teaching methodology and an upgraded infra would make them best school this side of Hyderabad.
Again, these are my personal impressions. you can actually check out at the school directly.
Hi can you suggest more ICSE schools near Hi-tech city please? also when is the admission process starts? I am looking for admission for my son's for class 4 and LKG next year 2017.
Many thanks for this information. Can you please also share if Future Kids is taking any admission fee (Need this info for LKG and Grade 3) at the time of joining.
This is from last year, they said they will give a final number in March 2019. They have asked to pay annual fee (7500 for next 14 years considering your continues until X+2) + admission fee (10,000) - total comes to about 1,15,000 if you are going for LKG, you dont have to pay annual fee going forward and if you leave in between, they will repay a pro rata basis.
Someone posted a review saying fee is approx 3.5 lakhs for grade 2. Is this true? Those who took admission recently or attended their open house, could you please confirm the fee given to you (any grade). Thank you.
@0713 - I paid about 1.4 for LKG last year. In addition, they asked to pay annual fee 7500 for future years in one go - this will be refunded on a prorata basis if you leave the school. I know someone who is paying around 1.5-1.7 for class 4 and 5 (as of last year) but not sure where this 3.5 lakh fee is coming from (as someone posted in review), havent heard it from school mgmt yet, doubling up in one year - I dont think any parent would accept it. @badrith - They follow ICSE, french I think, dont know Spanish, havent heard them saying it during my interaction last year. Please check with them.
I was looking for admission into Grade-1 for my kid.I register online and called them a couple of times. At last, someone picked up the call and said they're conducting Open-Houses which will continue until June-July and I might get a call for one of them,but he didn't guarantee. He said 2.4 Lac(Approx) when asked about a fee for grade-1 but the final figure will know only during open-house it seems.
But I feel we can't just wait for their call until June-July as we might also miss admissions into other schools as well.I expected better communication from the school.
@Kathraji5555, even we are trying for grade 3 and lkg, recently we got a call for PP1 open house, they will not confirm anything about admission till we get a call for open house, and I don't have any idea about fee structure except for pp1, dont completely rely on fks, make it a option, admission process is very tought.