Seven questions to ask before you choose a CBSE residential school in Lucknow — from evening study and hostel rooms to food, health, labs and fees.
Search for a CBSE residential school in Lucknow and you will find a long list of names, glossy brochures and very similar promises. For a parent, the hard part is not finding a school — it is telling the good ones apart. This guide sets out the questions we would ask if we were choosing a residential school for our own child, and how Siddhartha Global School, Malihabad answers each of them.
A CBSE residential school is a school affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education where children can live on campus during the term. The CBSE affiliation decides what your child studies and which board examinations they sit in Class X and Class XII. The residential part decides everything else — how they study in the evening, what they eat, who looks after them at night and how they spend their free time.
Many schools around Lucknow offer a hostel as an extra. A true residential school is planned around boarders from the start: the timetable, the staff rota, the dining hall and the games fields all assume that a large part of the school lives on campus.
Every CBSE school must publish a Mandatory Public Disclosure on its website, with its affiliation details, infrastructure, staff and results. Read it before you visit. At Siddhartha Global School it is on the Mandatory Disclosure page, together with the supporting documents, so you can check the details rather than take them on trust.
This is the single most useful question to ask any boarding school in Lucknow or anywhere in Uttar Pradesh. In many hostels, evening prep is supervised by a warden who keeps the room quiet. At Siddhartha Global School, boarders have two hours of supervised prep every evening with a subject teacher present on the floor, so a doubt is cleared the evening it appears rather than a week later. For Class IX to XII students preparing for CBSE board examinations, that difference adds up over a year.
Ask to see an actual dormitory. Our rooms are furnished with a bed, a study table and lockable storage for every child. The junior wing has four to six beds per room, with fewer as classes go up. Boys and girls live in separate wings, and a warden is resident on each floor rather than on call from elsewhere on campus.
A child who is eating well and sleeping well learns well. One common dining hall serves every house, and the weekly menu is set with the school doctor and pinned on the notice board, so parents can read it on a visiting Sunday. A resident nurse is on campus, a doctor visits daily, and the school has a tie-up with a Lucknow hospital for emergencies.
Children in a residential school need room to run. Siddhartha Global School sits on a fourteen-acre campus on the Mohan–Malihabad Road, away from city traffic but within easy reach of Lucknow. Every evening, boarders are out on a ground — cricket, football, basketball, athletics or yoga — as part of the day, not as an optional extra. Students with a serious interest in the game can also train at the school's cricket academy.
For a CBSE school, practical work in Classes IX to XII is examined, not optional. Ask to see the physics, chemistry and biology laboratories and whether students actually work in them. Our labs are set up for regular practicals, and students do the experiments themselves.
A good school publishes its fee structure rather than quoting it over the phone. Ask what is included and what is charged separately — transport, hostel, examination fees, uniform and books — so the annual figure you plan for is the one you actually pay. Our fee structure is available on the Downloads page.
Not every family wants full boarding. Siddhartha Global School also takes day boarders and day scholars, with bus routes for children travelling from nearby areas. Many families start with day boarding and move to full residential life as the child grows more independent.
Parents from Lucknow and across Uttar Pradesh choose us because we are a CBSE residential school that is built around boarders: supervised prep with subject teachers, a resident warden on every floor, a doctor-approved menu, fourteen acres of open campus and a house system that gives every child a place to belong.
The best way to judge a residential school is to walk through it. Registration is open from Nursery to Class XI for day scholars and boarders. Call the admission office on 076071 60659 to book a campus visit, or send an enquiry from the Admission page and we will call you back the same working day.
Siddhartha Global School, Mohan–Malihabad Road, Jugyana, Malihabad, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226102.
Nursery to Class XI, day scholars and boarders. The office is open Monday to Saturday, 8:00 am to 3:00 pm.
