Vision
Graduates who can begin again.
We want young people who can read a hard text, make a careful thing, disagree without cruelty, and walk into a new city or a new course without waiting to be told who they are.
About the school
Known by name. Taught to think.
Since 1998, Global International School has been a day school for families who want academic stretch without losing childhood.
History
Founded by teachers, still led by them.
Dr. Anjali Rao and Professor David Menon opened the school with 86 children in a rented block off Whitefield Main Road. They wanted a school that would take Indian board examinations seriously and still leave room for music, making, and sport.
The present 12-acre campus opened in 2006. Cambridge IGCSE joined the CBSE pathway in 2012. The wellbeing centre, design studio, and senior research library followed. The founding promise has not changed: every child should be known, and every subject should be taught by someone who still loves it.
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1998
The school opens with Nursery to Grade 4 and a promise of small classes.
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2006
The Whitefield campus opens. Senior secondary science, commerce, and humanities begin.
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2012
Cambridge IGCSE is added beside CBSE for Grades 9 and 10.
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2018
The wellbeing centre opens, with counsellors and a full-time nurse.
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2024
The design and robotics studio opens for middle and senior students.
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2025
Ninety-eight percent of the graduating class finishes in the distinction band.
Purpose
Vision and mission
Mission
Teach the subject. Keep the child.
We hire teachers for their subject and keep classes small enough for feedback. We tell families the truth about progress. We protect time for play in the early years and time for depth later.
Principal
“A good school is slightly quieter than people expect. The noise is in the work: a laboratory, a rehearsal, a child finally getting the sentence right.”
Children do their best thinking when they are safe and when the work is worth doing. That is the whole of my job: protect the safety, and refuse the busywork. If you visit, ask a student what they are making. The answer should be specific.
Dr. Meera Krishnan Principal, since 2019Leadership
The people who hold the week together.
Dr. Meera Krishnan
Principal
Literature teacher by training. Leads academic council and the weekly staff clinic.
Arjun Mehta
Head of Secondary
Physics teacher. Owns Grades 9 to 12, examinations, and subject counselling.
Sofia Rahman
Head of Primary
Early years specialist. Guards play, phonics, and the first years of writing.
David Chen
Director of Academics
Designs the CBSE and IGCSE maps so the two pathways stay honest to each other.
Leela Nair
Head of Student Wellbeing
Leads counsellors, tutors, and the quiet rooms students can use without an appointment.
Rohan Iyer
Head of Sport and Activities
Former state cricketer. Runs games, outdoor education, and the house competitions.
Houses
Four houses. No one sits out.
Students join a house in Grade 1 and stay with it. Points come from service, music, games, and academic honesty, not only from the scoreboard.
- EmberCourage
- NautilusCuriosity
- CedarSteadiness
- MeridianFairness
Achievements
Recent work we are willing to put our name on.
Class of 2025
98 percent of CBSE and IGCSE candidates finished in the distinction band. Forty-one students received university offers before the results day.
Robotics, 2026
The senior team hosted and won the Whitefield inter-school robotics meet, fielding a sorter built in the design studio.
Green campus
The kitchen garden now supplies the cafeteria salad bar three days a week. The 2025 energy audit cut diesel generator hours by a third.
Music
The senior orchestra opened the city youth festival in September 2026 and recorded its first live album in the main hall.