Sloka — The Hyderabad Waldorf School is an alternate school serving families in India. India's first full Waldorf school, founded in Hyderabad in 1997, running main-lesson blocks and a class teacher who stays with a cohort — then handing over to CBSE from Class 9. It teaches the Waldorf (Steiner) to Class 8 · CBSE from Class 9 curriculum across playgroup–class xii, with accreditation or pathway listed as CBSE-affiliated since 2010 (affiliation number not confirmed at source). Separately listed by Freunde der Erziehungskunst, the German Waldorf body — a pedagogical membership, not an Indian statutory recognition..
The senior school is very new. Sloka ran Playgroup to Class 10 for roughly 27 years; Class 11 only opened in June 2024 and Class 12 the year after, so the first Class 12 cohort would have sat boards around March 2026. There is no track record to judge. The current 2026-27 messaging offers Humanities only at Class 11 — a family aiming at JEE or NEET has to transfer out for Class 11, which is a real structural constraint rather than a preference. The CBSE affiliation number could not be confirmed at source; aggregators disagree. Independent ratings are thin and contradictory: Justdial shows roughly 3.5 from about 38 ratings but could not be loaded, one directory shows 4.8 from 11 ratings on a page that simultaneously invites the first review, and another publishes a score its own platform computes rather than collects. We therefore publish no rating. Note also that at least four unrelated Hyderabad schools use the name Sloka.
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ℹ️ Classes 1–8 follow Waldorf pedagogy rather than a board syllabus; Classes 9–10 transition to CBSE; Classes 11–12 are CBSE and, in the current cycle, Humanities only.
| Grades | Published fee | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Playgroup | ₹2,77,200 / yr | 2025-26 tuition, two terms combined |
| Nursery and KG | ₹2,96,000 / yr | — |
| Classes I–V | ₹2,90,000 / yr | — |
| Classes VI–X | ₹2,91,000 / yr | — |
| Classes XI–XII | ₹2,91,000 / yr | — |
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Sloka — The Hyderabad Waldorf School serves families across Aziz Nagar, Moinabad (grade school) and Jubilee Hills (kindergarten) · Hyderabad, Telangana.
