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Premium NCR progressive Alternate India CBSE affiliation no. 530550, up to senior secondary — the statutory recognition, confirmed on the school’s own CBSE mandatory public disclosure. Its Council of International Schools (CIS) accreditation and Association for Experiential Education membership are voluntary, fee-paying international schemes, not statutory recognition, and should not be read as a board affiliation.

Heritage Xperiential Learning School

4.2 (42) 📍 Sector 62, Gurugram, Haryana · Delhi NCR

About this school

Heritage Xperiential Learning School is an alternate school serving families in India. The largest experiential-learning school in Delhi NCR: a 2003-founded, 137-classroom CBSE campus in Sector 62, Gurugram, that runs project-based teaching at mainstream scale and mainstream-plus fees. It teaches the CBSE (Affiliation No. 530550) · separate international stream: International Primary Curriculum, IGCSE and the IB Diploma curriculum across nursery – grade xii, with accreditation or pathway listed as CBSE affiliation no. 530550, up to senior secondary — the statutory recognition, confirmed on the school’s own CBSE mandatory public disclosure. Its Council of International Schools (CIS) accreditation and Association for Experiential Education membership are voluntary, fee-paying international schemes, not statutory recognition, and should not be read as a board affiliation..

Teacher : student
1:9 as stated by the school. Its own CBSE mandatory disclosure lists 200 teaching staff — 32 PGT, 82 TGT, 76 PRT, 9 PET and 17 special educators — across 137 classrooms. The ratio is the school’s figure and is not independently audited.
Indicative fees
₹4.56L – ₹5.32L / yr
School-published composite fee for the 2027–28 CBSE session at the Sector 62 campus, billed quarterly in four instalments; the annual figures here are those quarterly amounts multiplied by four. On top sit a one-time non-refundable admission fee of ₹2,30,000 and refundable caution money of ₹1,13,900 to ₹1,33,000. The composite fee excludes meals (₹42,960–₹52,560 a year), transport (₹91,320–₹1,21,320 a year), books and stationery, sports enrichment, clubs, coaching, trips and camps, external examinations, therapies, learning support and college advisory — each billed separately. A 10 per cent sibling concession applies to one sibling only. A first year in Grade XI therefore starts near ₹7.6 lakh before any option is added.
Accreditation / pathway
CBSE affiliation no. 530550, up to senior secondary — the statutory recognition, confirmed on the school’s own CBSE mandatory public disclosure. Its Council of International Schools (CIS) accreditation and Association for Experiential Education membership are voluntary, fee-paying international schemes, not statutory recognition, and should not be read as a board affiliation.

Highlights

  • Raahgiri Day, the car-free-streets movement now run in 11 Indian cities, began as a Grade 6 project here
  • Adopted a Haryana government elementary school under the Muskan project to exchange teaching methods
  • Seventeen special educators on staff on its own CBSE disclosure
  • Fee structure published openly, grade by grade, on the school’s own site
⚠ What to consider

Separate what is genuinely distinctive here from what is branding. Distinctive and independently traceable: Raahgiri Day started as a student project at this school and spread to eleven cities, and the school adopted a Haryana government school under the Muskan pilot. Branding: "a visionary, progressive school at the forefront of alternate education", the 1:9 ratio, the top-ten rankings and the best-infrastructure-in-NCR line are all the school’s own copy about itself, and none of it is independently established. The scale argues against the alternative-school label in any case — 137 classrooms and 200 teaching staff on its own CBSE filing make this a large mainstream institution that teaches through projects, not a small alternative one. How much of the experiential claim survives the board years is the open question: the senior school is ordinary CBSE, and the school reports itself the way every Gurugram school does, by pass percentage and stream toppers. The cost is the second real objection. The composite fee is ₹4.56 to ₹5.32 lakh a year, but that is the floor: a non-refundable ₹2.30 lakh admission fee, refundable caution money of roughly one quarter’s fee, and separate billing for meals, transport, books, clubs, sports enrichment, trips, external exams, therapies, learning support and college advisory sit on top. Selectivity compounds it — Nursery for 2027–28 was closed before the year began and every other grade runs a waitlist. Finally, the independent review base is thin for a school this size: 42 ratings on SchoolMyKids, most of them one-line posts from 2018 and 2019 and scored by that site’s own weighting model rather than a raw average; seven votes on Edustoke; three reviews on Ezyschooling, all five stars, all short, all recent. No Google figure could be read at source, so none is quoted. The sharpest criticism anywhere in that record is also the most consistent: a parent who called it the best school in Gurgaon and added, in the same sentence, that the fees are far above normal. Aggregator data on this school is unreliable in its own right — at least one large directory conflates it with the separate Heritage International Xperiential School and quotes fees roughly half the real figure.