18 September 2026 · Academics
Six medals at the regional science olympiad
Our Class X and 11 teams returned from Pune with three golds, two silvers and a bronze — the school's strongest showing since 2018.
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From the Principal
“We do not prepare children for examinations. We prepare them for the twenty years that follow — and we are unembarrassed about how demanding that is.”
Junior Gurukul was founded on a straightforward conviction: that rigour and warmth are not opposites. A school can hold a child to a very high standard and still know their name, their siblings, and the subject that keeps them up at night.
Three decades on, that conviction is visible in our classrooms of twenty-eight, in a faculty who stay an average of nine years, and in graduates who write to us long after they have stopped needing to.
Dr. Anjali Mehra
Principal, since 2014
A Tradition of Excellence
जय श्री कृष्ण · Bhikangaon, M.P.
The School
Three schools under one roof
I
Primary Years
Classes I–V · Ages 6–10
Foundations laid slowly and properly. Inquiry-led literacy and numeracy, a second language from the first term, and an hour outdoors every day — because attention is built, not demanded.
II
Middle Years
Classes VI–VIII · Ages 11–13
The years of range. Ten disciplines taught by specialists, the first real laboratory work, debate and Model UN, and a service commitment that runs the full three years.
III
Senior School
Classes IX–XII · Ages 14–18
CBSE through to the AISSE and AISSCE board examinations, with Science, Commerce and Humanities streams from Class XI. Career counselling begins in Class IX, not Class XII.
Admissions
Five steps, one term
Applications for the 2027–28 session open on 1 November 2026 and close on 31 January 2027. Each class takes two sections of thirty-two, and no more.
01
Enquiry & prospectus
A short form, then a printed prospectus and a call from the admissions office within two working days.
02
Campus visit
Ninety minutes on a normal school day, led by two senior students. Open mornings run fortnightly.
03
Application & records
Two years of school reports, a reference from the current head, and a letter from the applicant.
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Assessment & interview
A morning on campus: reasoning and literacy papers, plus a conversation with the family.
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Offer & enrolment
Decisions issued 20 February. Places confirmed with a deposit, credited in full against first-term fees.
Latest from Junior Gurukul
All news & events5 September 2026 · Campus
The Saraswati Auditorium opens on the north quad
A 400-seat auditorium, four practice rooms and a black-box studio, funded entirely by the alumni association's tenth-anniversary appeal.
28 August 2026 · Results
Class XII 2026: a hundred percent pass, eleven above 90%
Every candidate cleared the AISSCE, eleven scored above ninety percent, and four have places on the IIT and NEET merit lists.
About Junior Gurukul
A school built on one stubborn idea
That rigour and warmth are not opposites — and that a school which believes otherwise will fail quietly at both.
Our story
Eight acres on the Khargone road
In 1994 four teachers and one retired revenue officer pooled their savings to buy farmland on the Khargone road, a kilometre outside Bhikangaon. They had between them no endowment, no board of governors, and a single classroom block with a leaking roof. What they did have was a refusal to run the kind of school they had spent their careers working in.
The first intake was sixty-one children. The rule from the beginning was that no class would exceed thirty-two, whatever the financial argument for growing it — a rule that has been tested in every budget meeting since and has never once been broken.
Today Junior Gurukul teaches 1,140 students from Bhikangaon and thirty surrounding villages, one in nine of them on a full or partial scholarship. The leaking classroom block is still standing. It is now the music school.
“Build it for the children who are difficult to teach. The others will do well anywhere.”
Shri Ramesh Chandra Patidar, founding principal
Thirty-one years, in brief
1994
The school opens with sixty-one children and five teachers.
2001
Senior School founded; the first cohort sits the Class X board.
2009
The second academic block and the science laboratories open.
2016
Senior secondary affiliation granted; Science and Commerce streams open.
2023
The scholarship fund reaches one in nine students.
2026
The Saraswati Auditorium opens on the north quad.
What we hold to
Four commitments, written down in 1994
Small by design
No class above sixteen. Every child known by name to every member of their year team, without exception.
Demanding, not punishing
High standards held steadily, with the support that makes them reachable. Pressure without scaffolding is negligence.
Open to talent
One in nine students holds a scholarship. Admission is decided before any discussion of what a family can pay.
Answerable
Results, retention and inspection reports published in full each September, whatever they say.
Governance & accreditation
Junior Gurukul is run by a registered education society governed by a board of eleven, four of whom are elected by parents. The school is affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education as a co-educational, English-medium senior secondary school, and is an approved AISSE and AISSCE examination centre.
CBSE
Affiliated · Senior Secondary
I–XII
Co-educational, English medium
M.P.
Khargone district
Academics
Taught by specialists, in rooms of twenty-eight
A single academic spine from Class I to Class XII — inquiry at the bottom, disciplinary depth at the top, and no wasted year in between.
I
Primary Years
Classes I–V
Reading is taught systematically and early; mathematics is taught for fluency before it is taught for cleverness. Beyond that, the primary day is deliberately unhurried — long blocks for projects, a second language from the first term, and an hour outside whatever the weather.
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Average class
2
Adults per room
60min
Outdoors daily
0
Homework, Gr 1–2
II
Middle Years
Classes VI–VIII
Every subject passes to a specialist. Students meet a laboratory, a workshop and a recording studio in the same week, and are expected to write at length in all of them. Three years of service learning begin here, as does the debating programme that feeds our Model UN delegation.
EnglishMathematicsBiologyChemistryPhysicsHistoryGeographyHindi / French / SpanishComputingArt & DesignMusicPhysical Education
III
Senior School
Classes IX–XII
Two years to the Class X board, then a choice of Science, Commerce or Humanities. Every stream is timetabled with the same number of specialist periods and counselled with the same seriousness; none is treated as the fallback. Career guidance starts in Class IX with a named counsellor who stays with the student for four years.
Science stream
PCM and PCB with computer science; JEE and NEET coaching integrated into the timetable.
Commerce & Humanities
Accountancy, business studies, economics, political science, psychology and fine art.
Counselling
One counsellor per forty students, from Class IX onward.
Class of 2026
Where they went
118 candidates, a hundred percent pass, twenty-seven district merit positions. Published in full each September.
IIT (JEE Advanced)
6 students
NEET · Government Medical Colleges
9 students
MANIT Bhopal
7 students
DAVV Indore
21 students
IIIT & NIT (CSAB)
11 students
Symbiosis & Christ University
8 students
Delhi University
12 students
NIFT & Khairagarh
3 students
Admissions 2027–28
We admit the child, then discuss the fees
Places are offered on assessment and interview alone. Financial circumstances are considered only afterwards, by a separate committee — one in nine of our students holds a scholarship.
Fee estimator
What a year actually costs
Indicative figures for 2027–28, inclusive of books, examinations and house activities. Scholarship awards are applied separately.
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Indicative only. A full schedule of fees is issued with every offer letter.
Key dates
Applications open1 Nov 2026
Open morning · Classes I–V24 Sep 2026
Parent orientation morning21 Nov 2026
Applications close31 Jan 2027
Assessment days8–12 Feb 2027
Decisions issued20 Feb 2027
Acceptance deadline13 Mar 2027
Questions we are asked
Do you admit mid-year?
Where a place exists, yes — most commonly in Grades 6 to 9, and usually for relocating families. Assessment is arranged within ten days of enquiry.
How competitive is entry?
Roughly three applications per place at Class I and Class VI, our two main entry points. We do not operate a waiting list beyond one academic year.
What does the assessment involve?
A reasoning paper and a short piece of writing, age-appropriate and untutorable by design, followed by a conversation with the child and their parents. No preparation is expected or advantaged.
Are scholarships means-tested?
Fully. Awards run from 10% to 100% of tuition and are reviewed annually. The scholarship committee never sees the admissions file, and admissions never sees the scholarship application.
Is Hindi-medium transition support available?
Yes, up to Class IX. Four specialists run our English bridge programme for children joining from Hindi-medium schools; most exit within three terms.
Campus Life
Eight acres, and not a corridor wasted
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Houses
Four houses, one of them yours for twelve years
Every student is placed in a house on the first morning and stays there until they graduate. Siblings are always placed together. Houses compete in sport, debate, music and — with real ferocity — the Founders' Day quiz.
Gyan
Founded 1994. Holders of the Founders' Cup, three years running.
Shakti
Founded 1994. Strongest in music; unbeaten in the choral competition since 2021.
Satya
Founded 2001. Runs the school's largest service programme, in four villages near Bhikangaon.
Sewa
Founded 2009. Athletics champions, 2026.
Beyond the timetable
Sixty-two clubs run each week. Every student in Classes VI–XII commits to one sport, one art and one service.
CricketFootballSwimmingAthleticsBasketballOrchestraChamber choirTheatreModel UNDebatingRoboticsAstronomyKathakCeramicsFilm societyVillage literacy project
News & Events
The school diary, kept in public
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Wed
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Select a marked day to read the entry. Term dates and the full calendar are posted each August.
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Recent news
18 Sep 2026 · Academics
Six medals at the regional science olympiad
Three golds, two silvers and a bronze — the school's strongest showing since 2018.
5 Sep 2026 · Campus
The Saraswati Auditorium opens
A 400-seat auditorium and black-box studio, funded by the alumni appeal.
28 Aug 2026 · Results
Class XII 2026: a hundred percent pass, eleven above 90%
Ninety-eight percent placed at their first-choice university.
Class VIII service week: four hundred hours in Zirniya14 Aug 2026
Two Junior Gurukul teachers named to the national curriculum panel2 Aug 2026
Scholarship fund passes one in nine students for the first time19 Jul 2026
Faculty
Sixty-two teachers who stay
Average tenure nine years. Sixty-one percent hold a master's degree or doctorate in the subject they teach — not in education generally, but in their discipline.
Senior leadership
The people who answer for the school
Dr. Anjali Mehra
Principal
M.Ed. and M.A. English, Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya. At the school since 2009, Principal since 2014.
Rohan Desai
Deputy Head, Academics
M.Sc. Mathematics, IIT Bombay. Leads curriculum design and the IB programme.
Meenakshi Chouhan
Head of Senior School
Twenty-two years teaching in Khargone and Indore; leads Classes IX to XII.
Farah Siddiqui
Director of Admissions
Your first point of contact, and the person who reads every application letter.
Heads of department
Dr. Kavita Rao
Physics · M.Sc., DAVV Indore
Priyanka Sharma
English · M.A., DAVV Indore
Sunita Balan
Mathematics · M.Sc., Vikram University
Neha Verma
Hindi & Sanskrit · M.A., NET
Arjun Pillai
History · M.Phil., JNU
Nadia Haq
Chemistry · M.Sc., DAVV Indore
Sanjay Nagar
Music · Sangeet Visharad
Leela Nambiar
Art & Design · M.F.A., Khairagarh
Teach at Junior Gurukul
We hire subject specialists and keep them
Six teaching posts and two house tutor roles are open for April 2027, across sciences, mathematics and music. Staff quarters on campus, transport, and a funded B.Ed. or M.Ed. programme are standard.
Alumni & Giving
Nine thousand people who were once fourteen here
The Junior Gurukul Association is run by alumni, for alumni — and it pays for the scholarships that let the next cohort arrive.
4,100
Alumni on the register
9
States
120
Mentors to Class XII
₹1.4 cr
Raised for scholarships
Where they are now
Class of 2004
Dr. Ananya Krishnan
Physician, Government Medical College Indore. Returns each February to teach the Class XI biology seminar.
Class of 2011
Ibrahim Qureshi
Cinematographer. His first feature screened at MAMI Mumbai in 2025; he shot his first short in the school drama room.
Class of 2016
Pooja Yadav
Founder of a water-testing cooperative operating in ninety villages across Khargone district.
The Junior Gurukul Fund
One in nine students is here because someone gave
Every rupee given to the Fund goes to scholarships — no exceptions, no administrative deduction. Ninety-four percent of gifts are under ₹5,000, and they compound: a full place funded today is a graduate in twelve years.
128
Students on scholarship, 2026–27
31%
Of alumni give annually
100%
Of gifts reach scholarships
Reunion Weekend
6–7 February 2027
Classes ending in 2 and 7. Dinner in the dining hall, a cricket match nobody takes seriously, and tours led by current students.
Mentoring
Applications open year-round
Three hundred and forty alumni advise Class XI and 12 students on universities, courses and first jobs. Two hours a term.
Chapters
Indore · Bhopal · Pune · Delhi
Four city chapters meet quarterly, with a fifth opening in Bengaluru this spring.