Irah Public School

Irah Public School
NS – 30B, Block M, Delta III, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201310, India
https://irahfoundation.org/irah-public-school/
Irah Public School is a co-educational English-medium institution founded in 2004 by the Irah Educational & Welfare Society. The campus occupies a four-acre plot at Sector-45, Gurugram, surrounded by low-rise residential blocks that give it a quiet, neighborhood feel while still located inside the Delhi NCR ring road. The imposing honey-colored stone façade, wide corridors shaded by jacaranda trees, and brightly tiled courtyards create a cheerful first impression. Inside, light-filled classrooms are equipped with IOT-enabled projectors, individual lockers, and break-out reading nooks; every floor also has a small “tinker bay” where students can borrow Raspberry-Pi kits, Lego Mindstorms, or basic carpentry tools on an honor-system basis.

Academically, the school is affiliated with CBSE and offers two curricular tracks from Grade IX onward: the standard science-commerce-humanities stream, and a parallel “STEM-X” program that integrates advanced courses in design thinking, financial literacy, and applied AI. Almost every Grade-XI learner takes at least one Cambridge AS-Level for depth; last year 72 % of the cohort scored A-C. Holistic growth is taken seriously—40 % of the timetable is reserved for performing arts, sports, or community projects. The 350-seat Ranga Shankara auditorium hosts a bi-annual inter-school theater festival while the rooftop astronomy deck, equipped with an 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope, stays open on alternate evenings for neighborhood sky-watch sessions.

Co-curricular breadth is unusual for an urban day school. Instead of the typical house system, students join one of five “guilds”: Terra (environmental science), Aqua (sports & wellness), Ignis (design & engineering), Aria (performing arts), and Ether (community leadership). Each guild receives an annual budget of INR 200,000 to design and execute an impact project; recent ones include a solar-powered hydroponic vegetable wall that now supplies the mid-day meal kitchen, and a free legal-literacy app scripted, designed and marketed by Grade-IX students. Two full-time sports psychologists and a nutritionist work alongside 15 certified coaches; therefore, despite a single plot, the school has tailored facilities that punch above its footprint: a half-Olympic temperature-controlled pool, climbing boulder, and a FIFA-approved synthetic turf used for evening FC-Barcelona academy partnerships. Every Grade-VIII pupil completes a 14-day Himalayan trek graded by the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering.

Faculty strength is 140 for 1,850 students across Nursery-XII (intentionally capped at 20:1) and recruitment emphasizes subject-matter passion: the physics department shelters a former ISRO satellite systems engineer, while the English faculty includes two published spoken-word poets. Continuous professional development is mandatory—24 hours of in-house micro-credential courses every term, paid sabaticals for an M.Phil or fellowship every five years. “Reverse-mentoring Fridays” allow Grade-XI students to teach Gen-AI prompting to staff, breaking hierarchical ceilings.

Pastoral care operates through a vertical “cluster” system—16 children from mixed grades meet daily with a learning guide for reflection circles, goal-setting, and peer mentoring. The on-site Sara Counseling Centre provides art, music, and CBT interventions; the wait time for a session never exceeds 48 hours because student volunteers—trained under Fortis Hospital’s TeenMentalHealthFirstAid protocol—staff the center alongside licensed professionals.

The school’s consciously inclusive ethos shows in its scholarship program (15 % of seats reserved for meritorious EWS children, full tuition waiver plus wrap-around academic support) and a unique “reverse-grant” where alumni earning above an income threshold contribute 1 % of annual salary for life. Notable alumni span Olympic gymnast Meera Bhandari, restaurateur Priya Bhatia (founder of Sixth Sense analytics SaaS), and climate activist Aaquib Raza whose start-up, AIR-INK, builds carbon-negative inks.

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