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Cover Story EW INTERNATIONAL DAY SCHOOLS RANKINGS 2023-24

INDIA’S TOP-RANKED

INTERNATIONAL DAY SCHOOLS

egories (to eliminate apples and or-
anges type comparisons), Dhirubhai
Ambani International School,
Mumbai (DAIS, estb.2003), pro-
moted by the heirs of legendary busi-
ness leader Dhirubhai Ambani (1932-
2002), founder-chairman of Reliance
Industries Ltd, the country’s most
respected and valuable company (an-
nual revenue: Rs.9.75 lakh crore), has
consistently been voted India’s pre-
mier international day school.
This year too, the 18,928 sample
respondents — parents, principals,
teachers and educationists — polled
by the Delhi-based market research
company C fore have voted DAIS the
#1 international day school with top
scores under the parameters of aca-
demic reputation, teacher competence
Nita Ambani: #1 for 11th consecutive year and development, curriculum and
pedagogy, co-curricular and sports
education, and parental involvement.
Among international schools the league table of day schools “The DAIS community takes im-
is the lengthiest. Not surprising. They provide globally mense pride that we are ranked In-
benchmarked international certification at relatively affordable dia’s #1 international day school for
prices compared to international day-cum-boarding and wholly the 11th consecutive year. I attribute
our consistent top rank to the extraor-
residential schools dinary commitment of our highly tal-
ented faculty and leadership team;
ithin the broad cat- middle and elite classes who want to emphasis on professional develop-
egory of international provide their children curriculums, ment of teachers; continuous review
schools, the league pedagogies and certification of glob- of curriculum and implementation of
Wtable of international ally reputed offshore exam boards innovative pedagogies; focus on inclu-
day schools is the lengthiest and most such as International Baccalaureate sive education and children’s holistic
competitive in the annual Education- (Geneva) and Cambridge Internation- development, and parents’ unwaver-
World India School Rankings (EW- al (UK). This year the league table of ing trust. The school’s outstanding
ISR). Not surprising. Because inter- international day schools is 144-strong exam results, placement of students in
national day schools provide globally with schools ranked in 39 cities includ- the world’s top universities, excellent
benchmarked K-12 education and in- ing several tier III-IV cities, indicating performance in sports and co-curric-
ternational certification at relatively a demand surge for schools providing ular education, and accomplishments
affordable prices compared with inter- internationally recognised qualifica- of our alumni are a testament to our
national day-cum-boarding and wholly tions and certification. school’s education philosophy and
residential schools, which are obliged Since 2013 when EWISR was rede- practices. It explains our top scores
to make huge investments in housing signed to rate and rank India’s most on most of the EW survey parameters
and related facilities for boarders. admired primary-secondaries in three of education excellence. Moreover,
Therefore, they are hugely popular broad categories — day, boarding, and as part of DAIS’ transition to the IB
with India’s aspirational and upper international — and several sub-cat- PYP and MYP frameworks, we have

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