Bharatiyam Gurukulum (Accelerated Program)
Bharatiyam Gurukulum is a residential, academically accelerated school program for exceptionally bright but poor students. Bharatiyam recognizes that there are certain students who have a better grasp on concepts, faster comprehension of key subjects, exceptional performance across all assessments, and a far greater potential than the average student in the typical classroom environment. These kids are to be offered a completely different atmosphere such that they mingle with likeminded peers in a challenging environment that far exceeds the standards of their grade level. Such exceptionally talented but economically backward students are identified through competitive assessments and prior academic performance in school.
In this context, Bharatiyam's intervention involves supporting the accelerated school programs as a whole to provide a complete schooling experience with a challenging academic program. The ultimate goal is to improve students' mental abilities, conceptual clarity, higher order thinking skills, English language skills, mathematical skills, and scientific temperament. Specific activities include that Bharatiyam plans to implement are:
In this context, Bharatiyam's intervention involves supporting the accelerated school programs as a whole to provide a complete schooling experience with a challenging academic program. The ultimate goal is to improve students' mental abilities, conceptual clarity, higher order thinking skills, English language skills, mathematical skills, and scientific temperament. Specific activities include that Bharatiyam plans to implement are:
- Creating aggressive assessments to determine the sustained aptitude and academic capabilities of all the students.
- Selecting specific individuals who display exceptional intelligence and nominating them for the residential school program.
- Offering a high quality academic program that is both challenging and reputable.
- Encouraging top students to collaborate with their peers, generate lasting friendships, and work on creative initiatives together.
- Recruiting eminent educators with high domain expertise and social consciousness.
- Ensuring high personal attention with a teacher to student ratio of 1:6.
- Laying out an academic path for students between 8th and 12th grades so that they can pursue their interests with great proficiency.
- Supporting Gurukulum students in a multitude of ways past graduation.
How You Can Help

Sponsor a Gurukulum Student:
Gurukulum students are bright, talented, and focused children who are also economically backward. Their achievement-oriented ambitions are often clouded by their inability to afford a proper education that can help them reach their highest potential. These students often do not get the best value from a typical classroom environment because they are always ahead of their peers, and hence they require an even more challenging environment to thrive. Bharatiyam undertakes a rigorous assessment process consisting of competitive tests, sustained academic performance review at school, and an interview for students between 8th to 12th grades to check if Gurukulum is right for them. If the student and family accept the nomination to attend the accelerated residential school program, Bharatiyam invests in providing state of the art facilities, highly adept teachers, and other resources necessary for the student to excel.
If you would like to sponsor a Gurukulum student, click on the Donate button below and enter "Sponsor a Gurukulum Student" in the "For which program? In honor of..?" field on the donation page.
Suggested Donation:
Gurukulum students are bright, talented, and focused children who are also economically backward. Their achievement-oriented ambitions are often clouded by their inability to afford a proper education that can help them reach their highest potential. These students often do not get the best value from a typical classroom environment because they are always ahead of their peers, and hence they require an even more challenging environment to thrive. Bharatiyam undertakes a rigorous assessment process consisting of competitive tests, sustained academic performance review at school, and an interview for students between 8th to 12th grades to check if Gurukulum is right for them. If the student and family accept the nomination to attend the accelerated residential school program, Bharatiyam invests in providing state of the art facilities, highly adept teachers, and other resources necessary for the student to excel.
If you would like to sponsor a Gurukulum student, click on the Donate button below and enter "Sponsor a Gurukulum Student" in the "For which program? In honor of..?" field on the donation page.
Suggested Donation:
- $850 / ₹50000 sponsors one students education, supplies, room, and board for one year
- $3300 / ₹200000 sponsors one student's education, supplies, room, and board for five years
- $8300 / ₹500000 sponsors one student's education, supplies, room, and board for life

Sponsor a Gurukulum Teacher:
Passionate and dedicated teachers are crucial for Bharatiyam's Gurukulum program. Teachers will have the responsibility to groom students not only in respective subject areas, but also in character development, passion identification, extracurricular support, and more. These instructors will be interacting with students at a very personal level, given the high teacher to student ratio, and they'll guide them to personal as well as professional success over the course of the students' high school years. Bharatiyam will provide teacher training programs, salaries, and appropriate benefits to all Gurukulum teachers in order to maintain high standards and faculty retention.
If you would like to sponsor a Gurukulum teacher, click on the Donate button below and enter "Sponsor a Gurukulum Teacher" in the "For which program? In honor of..?" field on the donations page.
Suggested Donation:
Passionate and dedicated teachers are crucial for Bharatiyam's Gurukulum program. Teachers will have the responsibility to groom students not only in respective subject areas, but also in character development, passion identification, extracurricular support, and more. These instructors will be interacting with students at a very personal level, given the high teacher to student ratio, and they'll guide them to personal as well as professional success over the course of the students' high school years. Bharatiyam will provide teacher training programs, salaries, and appropriate benefits to all Gurukulum teachers in order to maintain high standards and faculty retention.
If you would like to sponsor a Gurukulum teacher, click on the Donate button below and enter "Sponsor a Gurukulum Teacher" in the "For which program? In honor of..?" field on the donations page.
Suggested Donation:
- $2500 / ₹150000 sponsors one teacher's salary for one year
- $7500 / ₹450000 sponsors the salary of a Math, Science, and English teacher for any given grade level for one year

Miscellaneous Sponsorships:
Although the following contributions do not have a specific suggested donation, if you would like your contribution to support a particular initiative, please indicate it in the optional "For which program? In honor of..?" field on the donation page. If you or your organization sponsors a full initiative (i.e. fully sponsoring the construction of a classroom), Bharatiyam will honor that contribution by naming it after you or that organization. Please Contact Us if you would like to make an inquiry or receive more details.
Although the following contributions do not have a specific suggested donation, if you would like your contribution to support a particular initiative, please indicate it in the optional "For which program? In honor of..?" field on the donation page. If you or your organization sponsors a full initiative (i.e. fully sponsoring the construction of a classroom), Bharatiyam will honor that contribution by naming it after you or that organization. Please Contact Us if you would like to make an inquiry or receive more details.
- Sponsoring a classroom or faculty room
- Sponsoring a laboratory or library
- Sponsoring a hostel block, kitchen, dining hall, or guest room
- Sponsoring books, equipment, water tank, cots, study tables, chairs, racks, or computers
- Sponsoring a team of teachers (mathematics, science, languages, etc)
- Announcing scholarships, competitions, excursions, guest lectures, etc.