Hyderabad Public School
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Begumpet, Hyderabad, Telangana India | |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1923 |
| Principal | Ramandeep Kaur Samra |
| Faculty | 120 |
| Enrollment | 2800 (1-12) |
| Campus | 169 acres |
| Color(s) | Blue and gold |
| Website | Official website |
The Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet or HPS, Begumpet is a privately funded public school in Hyderabad in the state of Telangana.The School is managed by the Society and the Board of Governors.The HPS Society has currently 3 branches at Begumpet, Ramanthapur and Kadapa
Earlier known as Jagirdar College, it was established in 1923 as a school exclusively for the sons of jagirdars and other aristrocats. It was renamed as Hyderbad Public School in 1951 after Zamindari system was abolished in 1950.[1] It is on a160-acre (0.65 km2) campus with buildings ranging from the modern to the Qutub Shahi style of architecture.
Children are schooled from the primary stage through to the 12th standard (age 3 to age 17). The school is affiliated to the Council for the Indian School Certification Examinations (ICSE, ISC). Its administrative body is the Hyderabad Public School Society.
Notable alumni
- Ram Charan, Telugu cinema Actor
- YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, Opposition Party Leader AP, President YSR Congress
- Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft Corporation[2]
- Shantanu Narayen, Chief Executive Officer, Adobe Systems
- T K Kurien, Chief Executive Officer, Wipro[3]
- Preetish Nijhawan, Co-founder of Akamai Technologies
- Sridhar Tayur, Ford Distinguished Research Chair and Professor of Operations Management at Carnegie Mellon University; founder, SmartOps and OrganJet
- Harish Rao, Qualcomm
- Kiran Kumar Reddy, Member, HPS Society, 16th Chief Minister, Andhra Pradesh, India
- Akbaruddin Owaisi, M.L.A. (Chandrayangutta, Hyderabad) - Leader of AIMIM in Legislative Assembly, Telangana.
- Asaduddin Owaisi, M.P.(Hyderabad), President of A.I.M.I.M.
- Harsha Bhogle, journalist and cricket commentator
- Akkineni Nagarjuna, Telugu cinema Actor
- K. Hari Prasad, CEO, Apollo Hospitals
- Ramendra Kumar, Writer
- Talat Aziz, Ghazal Singer
- Prem Watsa, Chairman, CEO, Fairfax Financial Holdings, Canada
- Yarlagadda Sumanth Kumar, Telugu cinema Actor
- Rana Daggubati, Telugu cinemaActor
- Karan Bilimoria, Baron Bilimoria, Chairman, Cobra Beer
- Bapi Raju Kanumuri, Member of Parliament (Narasapuram), Lok Sabha
- G. Vivek, Ex- Member of Parliament (Peddapalli, Karimnagar District, TS), Lok Sabha
- Pallam Raju, Minister of Human Resource Development, M.P.(Kakinada), Lok Sabha
- Nawab Mir Khutubuddin Khan, Secretary Nasr School
- Venkatapathy Raju, HPS, cricketer, played for Hyderabad and India
- Ajay Kumar, Lok Sabha MP from Jamshedpur, Retd. IPS Officer, Trained Doctor.
- Umesh Chandra, IPS Officer.
- Dhiraj Handa, SVP & GM, SPANSION.
- Anil Raj, CEO Ericsson Ltd.
- Tahseen Mirza, PhD, MBA, Deputy Office Director, United States Food and Drug Administration, Washington DC
House system
The student body is divided into four houses named after famous institutions and universities in India.
Facilities
The 160 acre school has many buildings and grounds.
- The Primary block- Holds 1-5 classes.
- The Shaheen or the assembly hall- Holds 11th and 12th classes, inter-house and inter-school competitions occur here, the principal stays here.
- The Durand or the middle school block- Holds 6th and 7th classes.
- The Senior or the Science block- Holds 8th and 9th classes besides the computers, biology, chemistry and physics labs.
- The New Science block- Holds 10th class.
- The Administrative block- Administration.
- The boarding house- Holds the students who stay back in school.
- The dining hall- A huge dining hall which can hold around 1400 students at once.
- The parking lot- Can accommodate up to 500 at once.
- The School also has 17 football fields along with four outdoor basketball grounds. The school also provides students with 6 clay tennis courts.
Along with this the school has many volleyball, basketball and hockey fields not to mention a huge stadium(Bigger than the Rajiv Gandhi Cricket stadium, Hyderabad) where cricket is played and athletics take place.
References
- ↑ "Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet". My-Telugu.com. Retrieved 2011-09-20.
- ↑ Satya Nadella: Executive Vice President, Cloud and Enterprise
- ↑ T K Kurien: CEO, Wipro Ltd
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Coordinates: 17°26′39″N 78°27′26″E / 17.4442°N 78.4572°E