This new secondary school opened its doors in January 2008. In October 2010, it won the Best Seedling award of The Education Project 2010 conference. The Education Project was set up by HRH Prince Salman Bin Hamad Al-Khalifa, Crown Prince and Chairman of the Economic Development Board, to look at solutions for the gap in quality of the global education system.

Maharishi School pupils have gained gained many top place medals in the UK Mathematics Challenge (out of over 200 000 entries), come first in the Salters’ Festivals of Chemistry at Manchester University and won many national poetry prizes.

Many Maharishi School pupils have won national poetry prizes and gained membership of the National Association of Gifted and Talented Youth.

Since Maharishi School started entering pupils for GCSE examinations in 1990, the following cumulative figures are particularly noteworthy. The percentage of GCSE passes at grades A or A* at Maharishi School since 1990 is 39.1%, while nationally the figure is 14% over the same period (for all those years when national figures are available.)