The Scindia School

Scindia admits boys from Class VI onwards and takes them through to Class XII, so pupils spend their middle and senior school years on campus. Senior students sit the national board examinations and prepare for higher education in India and abroad.

Scindia aims to shape future leaders who combine a global outlook with an Indian ethos. It values holistic development, academic excellence, responsibility towards the environment and service to the community, and its daily routine of fitness, study and reflection is designed to build discipline and character.

The school occupies part of the 6th-century Gwalior Fort, set among natural flora and fauna. Facilities include the Seksaria Hall for morning assemblies, a central dining hall, boarding houses with common rooms, extensive playing fields, the Shukla Memorial open-air theatre and a cafeteria.

Boys have their meals in the central dining hall and can use a cafeteria at weekends. The school offers scholarships and bursaries, separate admission routes for Indian and international students, and in-school services for boarders.

Scindia is a full boarding school. Boys live in houses within the fort, with a day that runs from a morning bugle and fitness session through classes, sport, evening reflection at Astachal and supervised evening and night study, followed by lights out. Weekends include films, leisure and outdoor walks.

Every afternoon boys move from classes to sport on the school's playing fields, and the programme also includes co-curricular clubs and community service. Weekends bring films in the open-air theatre or assembly hall, leisure time and walks around the fort. A daily five-minute silence at Astachal, looking out over the fort at sunset, is one of the school's best-known traditions.