Pathways School Noida
Sector 100, Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201301, India
https://www.pathwaysnoida.edu.in/
Pathways School Noida rises out of Sector-100, flanked by the calm green of lush Aravalli foothills on one side and the new expressway’s humming skyline on the other. Designed by the same architectural team that created the IIT-Delhi and TU-Delft campuses, the school is best described as a Habitat for Inquiry: low-rise red-stone blocks are built around three inner quadrangles that double as outdoor classrooms, each shaded by gigantic rain-water-harvesting pergolas.
The school is an International Baccalaureate continuum institution, authorised to run the PYP (Nursery–G5), MYP (G6–10) and the IB Diploma Programme (G11–12). Recent board averages have stayed above 38/45 with over a third of the cohort scoring 40 +; DP offerings range from Marine Science to Global Politics and the new IB “Literature & Performance” pilot being run with the University of Bath’s drama faculty. The PYP boasts the city’s first Early Years Atelier—5000 sq ft of sensory labs built with MIT’s Playful Learning Landscapes team—while the MYP integrates UC-Berkeley’s “Beautiful Science” units into an ever-expanding Maker curriculum.
STEM finds its flagship in the 250-seater Da Vinci Studio equipped with five laser cutters, two milling machines, a cloud-connected electro-spinning lab and a fully instrumented Fab Lab (the second in India after MIT-India’s Pune node). Students have prototyped a low-cost cervical-cancer screener now in trials at AIIMS, and the grade-10 team won the Schlumberger Fab Lab Global Challenge 2023 for a biodegradable drone frame. Parallel strands for the Humanities thrive in the two-story Forum—an acoustically treated structure built in the round, modelled on Athens Agora—where weekly Oxford Union-style debates run alongside a school-led Model Government on Fridays.
Ensembles and sports occupy 40 % of the timetable. Students may choose from 14 performance bands (including a student-led jazz quartet already booked for the 2024 Delhi JazzFest), or train on the lake-front 400 m Olympic-A synthetic track, FIFA-pro turf pitches and the only school climbing wall in North India approved by the Indian Mountaineering Foundation. An annual seven-day “Cycle Yatra” to Rishikesh combines service learning—setting up solar libraries for Himalayan hamlets—with endurance cycling.
Founded in 2010, Pathways Noida is owned by the Pathways Schools Trust and governed by a board chaired by Ms. Pramila Gupta (Batch ’81 Harvard Business School). There are currently 1,250 learners from 37 nationalities spanning Nursery to Grade 12, taught by a faculty of 150, 60 % holding advanced degrees from Russell Group /Ivy Plus institutions. Fees 2024-25: INR 3.5-8.2 Lakhs; Need-based financial assistance covers 16 % of all seats, a testament to its tagline: “World Class. World Ready. For Everyone.”
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- Published: July 26, 2025
