Madrasa

For Indian and South Asian families in Oman

There's a third kind of school in Oman. Nobody told you about it.

Cambridge syllabus for English, Maths and Science. Less than 20 children in a class. Arabic your child will really speak. Islamic Studies in school time, not on your weekend. And many families like yours joining together, so the fees come close to what you pay today.

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Cambridge IGCSE & A LevelsLess than 20 children in a classSpoken Arabic, every dayIslamic Studies in school timeTeachers with tested EnglishAdmissions open till 15 SeptemberOmani and Arab classmatesFees we bring down togetherCambridge IGCSE & A LevelsLess than 20 children in a classSpoken Arabic, every dayIslamic Studies in school timeTeachers with tested EnglishAdmissions open till 15 SeptemberOmani and Arab classmatesFees we bring down together

The two choices you know

Indian school, or International school.
Those are the only two choices, right?

The choice in the middle

There is a third choice.

What you know

Indian school

  • 40 to 50 children in one class
  • Fees go up every April
  • Arabic is a side subject, and CBSE is pushing it out
  • Quran and Islamic Studies need a tutor on the weekend

Too expensive

International school

  • Beautiful campus
  • 4 to 6 times the fees
  • No Islamic Studies
  • Arabic taught like a foreign language

Semi-international

Omani private school

  • Cambridge for English, Maths and Science
  • Teachers with tested English
  • Arabic and Islamic Studies every week, by law
  • Less than 20 children in a class
  • Fees in the middle. Lower when many families join together

There are more than 40 schools like this in Oman. You drive past some of them every week.

They are already there

You have driven past them.

More than 40 private schools across Oman teach the Cambridge syllabus, with Arabic and Islamic Studies every week because the Ministry requires it.

Most Indian families have never walked into one. Not because they were turned away. Because nobody ever said the door was open.

An Indian family arriving at the gate of an Omani private school, with the school's Arabic and English sign behind them

Problem one: Arabic

YourchildlivesinanArabcountry.LearnsArabicatschool.PassestheArabicexam.Butwhentheneighbour'schildsaysmarhaba,yourchildgoesquiet.BecausebookArabicisnotspokenArabic.Andnow,CBSEistakingawayeventhebook.

What CBSE changed.

From July 2026, CBSE makes three languages compulsory in Class 9 and 10. Two of them must be Indian languages. This is fine in Delhi. In Muscat, it means the one language your child can really use outside school is the one that gets removed.

CBSE, Class 9 and 10, from July 2026

  • 11 · English
  • 22 · Hindi
  • 33 · Sanskrit, Tamil or Malayalam
  • 4Arabic? Silently disappeared.Arabic

Three languages are compulsory. Two of them must be Indian languages. English is one language. So the other two must be Indian. Arabic becomes an optional fourth language. And an optional subject is the first one to go.

An Indian boy in school uniform talking and laughing with two Omani classmates outside their school

The other kind of Arabic lesson

It happens at break time.

In an Omani private school, Arabic is not one period in the timetable. It is the playground, the canteen, and the classmate's birthday party.

Your child hears it all day, needs it to join in, and answers back in it. That is how a language stops being a subject and starts being theirs.

Problem two: your weekend

Then there's Friday. And Saturday.

Friday, the Quran tutor. Saturday, the Islamic Studies tutor. One more fee. One more drive. One more problem when the tutor cancels.

In an Omani private school, Islamic Studies is a compulsory subject for Muslim students, and Arabic is taught every day. This is the Ministry's rule. It is inside the timetable, taught by trained teachers. Your weekend comes back.

A week in your house

Sun
School
Mon
School
Tue
School
Wed
School
Thu
School
Fri
Quran tutor, 4pm
Sat
Islamic Studies, 10am

Two tutors. Two fees. Two drives. Every weekend.

Problem three: the classroom

50 children. One teacher.
How much time does your child get?

A typical Indian-school classroom

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children, one teacher, 40 minutes

Less than one minute of the teacher's time for each child, in one period.

An Omani private-school classroom

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children, one teacher, the same 40 minutes

Two to three times more attention. The teacher knows your child's name in the first week, and knows what your child finds difficult in the second.

A small class of Indian students with their hands raised, taught by an Omani teacher in a bright classroom

Every hand in this room gets seen. That is the whole difference.

The question you are already asking

Yes, they cost more. Today.

Sometimes double. Sometimes more. One family cannot change that. Many families together can.

Together, we change the fees.

Schools have empty seats. We have children. When many families ask together, the answer changes. This is how it works.

1

You add your family

Two minutes. No payment. No promise. Just your surname, your area, your children and what you pay today.

2

We show schools the numbers

How many families. Which areas. Which classes. What fees they can pay. Schools see the numbers, not your name.

3

Schools make an offer

Fees within 10 to 15% of what you pay today. A discount for brothers and sisters. Seats for September.

That is what Madrasa is for. To count us. To ask together.

And the small things

Things you have stopped noticing.

The fee letter

Fees go up every year. The class never gets smaller.

Too crowded

The building, the labs, the playground and the buses were made for fewer children.

New friends

In an Omani private school, your child grows up with Omani, Arab and other children. The Arabic they learn is used at the school gate, not only in the exam.

Timing

Don't wait for April.

Indian schools start in April. Omani and international schools start in September. If this idea makes sense to you, the time is now, not next year.

  • Admissions are open until 15 September 2026.
  • Classes start on 6 September 2026.
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This form is not an admission form. But if you like the idea, do not wait for April. Schools are still taking admissions this month. And every family on this list makes our fee talks stronger.

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What happens to your details.

This is a survey, not a sale

Right now we are only counting families. Nobody is selling you a school seat, and no school has your details.

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Where we are

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Do you run a school?

Indian families are gathering here. Come and meet them.

Offer fees close to Indian school fees, a discount for brothers and sisters, and seats for September. We show you how many families want to join, area by area.

Register my school

Add your family to the count.

Two minutes. Your surname, your area, how many children, what fees you pay. That is all.

Not an admission form. No promise needed. Just a number that changes things.