Chandigarh • India
Where curiosity becomes capability, character becomes confidence, and every student is prepared to shape a changing world.
Chandigarh • India
Scroll to the next sectionAurelia was built on a simple conviction: that a school's job is not to fill a child with answers, but to give them the confidence to ask harder questions — and the discipline to pursue them.
Students leave Aurelia fluent in more than subjects. They leave knowing how to think in public, work with people unlike themselves, and carry an idea from a question to something real.
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Aurelia's academic programme pairs a demanding international curriculum with the things that make knowledge stick: real projects, real audiences, and real consequences. Students research, build, present and defend their work from the earliest years — because understanding is proven by what you can do with it, not what you can recall.
Twenty-two acres arranged around a single idea: that the building should teach too. Daylight, sightlines and shared thresholds are used deliberately, so that a student moving between a laboratory and a rehearsal room passes through spaces that invite them to stop and work.
The main lawn, looking east
48 rooms · North quarter
6 labs · Physics, Chemistry, Biology
Ground floor · East wing
Adjacent to Innovation Lab
24,000 volumes · Silent and social floors
480 seats · Black-box studio
Indoor hall · 400m track · 25m pool
Nutritionist-led menus
Amphitheatre · Kitchen garden
Where ideas become prototypes.
Nine hundred square metres of workshop where a Grade 6 sketch and a Grade 12 research build share the same bench. Students book time, break things, and come back. The lab is staffed after school four days a week and has produced everything from assistive devices to a campus air-quality network.
What a student remembers is rarely the syllabus. It is the rehearsal that ran late, the match that turned, the trip where they were homesick and then were not. We build those hours on purpose.
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Aurelia taught me that learning isn't about having the right answer. It's about asking better questions.
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I built my first prototype in Grade 8 and it failed completely. Nobody treated that as a problem. That changed how I work.
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My teachers argued with me. Properly, like I was worth arguing with. I've never been more sure of what I think.
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I joined in Grade 6 from another country and I was terrified. By the end of the term I was running a club.
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The Innovation Lab is open until six. That single fact is responsible for most of what I've made here.
Writing from our faculty and students on how learning actually works — and what happens on campus while it does.
A year of prototypes, failures and one air-quality network now running on four campus buildings — told by the students who built it.
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Our Head of Middle School on why a public deadline and a real audience do more for a hesitant student than any amount of encouragement.
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Some things are better experienced than explained. Walk the corridors during a school day, sit in on a lesson, and ask our students anything you like.
Weekday tours at 09:30 and 14:00 · Saturday tours by appointment
