Rabbi
Zidni
Ilman
My Lord, increase me in knowledge.
These words from the Holy Qur’an serve as the motto of Shahbaaz English Medium School, and there is no more fitting a prayer for an institution whose entire existence has been devoted to the pursuit of knowledge.
1983
On June 1st, the school gates opened for the first time.
1998
On June 2nd, we moved to our current campus.
2017
On June 1st, the Pre-University College of Science for Girls was opened.
Vision and Mission
Shahbaaz - The Royal Falcon
The Shahbaaz is no ordinary bird. Known in Persian as the Royal Falcon, a creature of legend whose very nature defies limitation. It symbolises courage, freedom, and resilience: a spirit that cannot be confined, forever rising higher into the endless skies. It is this spirit that gives our school its name, and this aspiration that has informed every lesson taught within its walls since 1983.
The Sufi Saint - Laqab Shahbaaz
The name carries a second, deeper resonance. Shahbaaz was the pen name of Hazrath Khwaja Banda Nawaz, the revered Sufi saint whose enduring legacy in this region is not merely one of faith, but of fellowship. A reminder that the highest human endeavour transcends the divisions of caste, creed, and circumstance, and speaks instead to what is common in us all. His memory draws people of every faith to his doorstep to this day, a living testament to the power of a life devoted to peace, humility, and service.
The Vision
Our founder carried both meanings close to his heart. It was his deepest wish that every child passing through the ramparts of Shahbaaz should soar: not merely to the height of examination results or professional distinction, but to a life of genuine consequence. To build, as both namesakes did before them, a legacy whose reverberations will be felt long after their own time has passed. This is the vision with which Shahbaaz was founded, and the standard against which we measure ourselves still.
Accessible Quality Education
We set out to do something that was considered, in 1983, quietly radical: to make quality English-medium education genuinely affordable to every family in this region, regardless of their means. In a part of the country that had long been underserved, we believed that access to language — to English, the language of opportunity — should not be a privilege purchased at great personal cost, but a right extended to all.
That belief has never wavered.
Holistic Education
Our mission today remains what it was at the outset: to educate the complete individual. We measure our success not by examination results alone, but by the kind of person who leaves us. We seek to send into the world individuals who are intellectually curious, morally grounded, rigorously honest, and confidently articulate, equipped with a command of language, a facility with mathematics and science, and an understanding of the society they inhabit.
The Mission
We believe that knowledge, unaccompanied by character, is an incomplete gift. Our classrooms are therefore as much about integrity, curiosity, and moral seriousness as they are about syllabi and examinations.
Every child who studies here is taught not only to think, but to be!
Meet the Founders
The enduring legacy of Shahbaaz is not just a product of one man’s vision. It is the product of brilliance sustained by dedication, sacrifice, and the unglamorous discipline of showing up without fail day after day, decade after decade. Meet the people who transformed one man’s conviction into an institution of excellence!
Our Story
Shahbaaz began, as all enduring things do, modestly. On 1st June 1983, a single classroom in the Gunj area of Gulbarga opened its doors to a handful of neighbourhood children whose parents dared to believe that quality English-medium education need not be the exclusive preserve of the privileged. From the outset, the school welcomed children of every faith, caste, and background without distinction. No child was turned away on account of who they were or where they came from. Word spread not through advertisement or fanfare, but through the conduct of the children themselves: their articulation, their manners, their honesty. In a pre-liberalised India, these were Shahbaaz’s sole ambassadors, and they proved more persuasive than any notice board or newspaper column.
As the school continued to grow far beyond the capacity of its original premises, land was acquired in 1988 at what would become the school’s current address. The foundations of the new building were laid in 1992, and the new campus was ready to welcome students in 1998.
The years since have brought successive additions: a first floor, well-appointed laboratories, a library, a dedicated nursery classroom for pre-primary students, smart boards, projectors, a wifi-enabled campus, an intercom system, comprehensive CCTV coverage, a continuous boundary wall, a landscaped garden, vehicle parking, and the grand arch that now welcomes all who enter.
Our work, is not finished. It’s a project in progress and the best is yet to come!
Taraana-e-Shahbaaz
A school’s anthem is not merely a song. It is a statement of faith: in learning, in the children who pursue it, and in the institution that makes it possible. The Tarana-e-Shahbaaz is precisely that: a work of genuine literary distinction, composed by the eminent Urdu poet Janaab Abul Qasim Shaad Abbasi Sahaab of Benaras, whose voice enriched the Urdu literary tradition for over six decades.