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Enrollment
  
3200 (PP1 - 12)

Phone
  
040 2776 1546

Number of students
  
3,200 (PP1 - 12)

Website
  
Official website

Founded
  
1923

Faculty
  
155

Hyderabad Public School

Type
  
Public school (privately funded)

Established
  
1923 by H.E.H Nizam VII of Hyderabad

Principal
  
Latha Shanker (Principal FAC)

Campus
  
152 acres ( out of which 89 Acres alloted by H.E Lady Viqar-ul-Umara)

Address
  
1-11-87 & 88, S.P. Road, Begumpet, Hyderabad, Telangana 500016

Color
  
Light blue, dark blue and gold

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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 The Hyderabad Public School Society and the Board of Governors.The HPS Society has currently 4 branches at Begumpet, Ramanthapur (The Hyderabad Public School, Ramanthapur), Kadapa and Warangal.

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Earlier known as Jagirdar College, it was established in 1923 by the Seventh Nizam of Hyderabad, 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. It is on a152-acre (0.62 km2) campus with buildings ranging from the the Deccani Osmanian architecture to the contemporary style of architecture.

Children are schooled from the pre-primary stage 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.

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Recognition

Under the leadership of Late Mrs. Ramandeep Kaur Samra, HPS Begumpet in 2016, for the first time after 30 years broke into the TOP 10 (Ranked 9th) of EducationWorld's Best Day-cum-boarding Schools in India. Ranked 1st both in the State and the City.

Notable alumni

  • YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, opposition leader, ysrcp, Andhra Pradesh
  • Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft Corporation
  • Shantanu Narayen, Chief Executive Officer, Adobe Systems
  • T K Kurien, Chief Executive Officer, Wipro
  • 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
  • Seshaphani Tinnaluri, 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, President, 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
  • Ignatius John, President Alpha Omega Financial Systems
  • Ajay Kumar, Lok Sabha MP from Jamshedpur, Retd. IPS Officer, Trained Doctor.
  • Umesh Chandra, IPS Officer.
  • Dhiraj Handa, SVP & GM, Spansion.
  • Nikhil Chinapa, MTV VJ
  • Kamal Duggirala, CEO of Barra, Alpha Omega Financial Systems
  • Diana Hayden, Miss World 1997, Femina Miss India
  • Anil Raj, CEO Ericsson Ltd.
  • Tahseen Mirza, PhD, MBA, Deputy Office Director, United States Food and Drug Administration, Washington DC
  • Shilpa Reddy, Designer, Model
  • Vivek Oberoi, Bollywood Actors
  • Poonam Kaur, Actress, Model
  • Ashok Gajapathi Raju, Member of Parliament ([Vijayanagaram])
  • Sanmay Ved, Purchased Google.com from Google in September 2015. Donated Google's reward to charity.
  • Sid Narsipur, YouTuber

    • House system

    The student body is divided into four houses named after famous institutions and universities in India.

  • Nagarjuna-Red
  • Taxila-Green
  • Nalanda-Blue
  • Vijayanagar-Yellow

    • Inter-House Competitions

    Football (Team)

    Basketball (Team)

    Tennis (Individual)

    Debate (Team)0.

    Quiz (Team)

    Individual/Class Events

    Recitation (Poetry)

    Storytelling

    Elocution

    Fancy Dress Competition (Grade 1 and 2)

    Group Events

    Sports Day - November or December

    Concert/ Eagle's Fest - December

    Music Day - June or July

    Annual Day - Term End

    The Hyderabad Literary Fest has been held here since 2014 - January

    Sports Day 2016

    The Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet, held its Annual Sports Day on the 18th November, 2016 at the Basalath Jah Stadium from 2 pm onwards. The evening began with the March Past led by the Head Boy Master Mohammed Kamil Khan and the Head Girl Miss Aakriti Krishnan. The March Past by all the Houses exhibited high level discipline and dedication.

    The Chief Guest, Mr. Ajay Misra, IAS, Special Chief Secretary to Government of Telangana Revenue (CT & Exercise) Department lit the Meet Flame and handed it over to the school Games Captains. The oath taking ceremony was followed by the hoisting of the flags and declaring the Sports Meet open. Balloons in the vibrant colours of the four houses and doves were released into the blue skies to commemorate the most important event of the school.

    Overall Champion - Taxila

    March Past - Nagarjuna

    100m - Taxila

    Facilities

    The 160 acre school has many buildings and grounds.

  • The Pre-Primary Block- Holds PP1 and PP2 classes
  • 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 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 5000 cars 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.
  • The principal's bungalow where the principal stays
  • A library,art,SUPW and music room
  • 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.

    • References

    Hyderabad Public School Wikipedia
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