Schools Lingampally, Hyderabad Sancta Maria International School

A colleague keeps saying 'IGCSE from nursery' about Sancta Maria in Lingampally. What does that mean for a 3 year old?

pebble_wave_87413 May 2026

Our boy is only a few months old, so yes, very early 😄 But Sancta Maria International School in Lingampally is close to us, and a colleague with older kids keeps talking about 'IGCSE from nursery' as if it's obvious. As far as I understood, IGCSE is the exam around class 10. So what happens in the small classes? Is nursery at a school like this very different from nursery anywhere else, or is it the same play and rhymes with a different name on top? My partner and I both did state board and CBSE, so we're starting from zero.

2 comments

hazel_cradle_68013 May 2026
No direct experience of that school, ours are CBSE. But I asked the same question when we were choosing, and what I understood then is that these schools follow their own primary programme in the lower classes, and the IGCSE name really refers to the end. In nursery, the differences we saw between schools were class size and how much writing they pushed, not the board. Visit and look at a nursery classroom when the time comes.
plum_kettle_342614 May 2026
Same answer from another side: at nursery, the board label means very little. With a baby that young I'd look at the commute and how long the school runs, since you could be doing that drive for fourteen years. Several colleagues' children did IGCSE and then moved to CBSE or IB for 11 and 12. It went fine, but they started planning it around class 8.