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Cover Story EW INTERNATIONAL DAY-CUM-BOARDING SCHOOLS RANKINGS 2023-34

INDIA’S BEST INTERNATIONAL

DAY-CUM-BOARDING SCHOOLS

Day-cum-boarding schools
offer a win-win proposition:
day scholars benefit from
the excellent infrastructure
and sports facilities built for
boarders, the latter by way
of student body diversity.
Therefore it’s unsurprising
that the number of
international day-cum-
boarding schools is rising
countrywide year on year

nternational day-cum-boarding IIS-B’s Sarojini Rao (left) & Gen. Ray: continuous future-readiness
schools are the glamour section
of the annual EW India School India. deja vu about it. This year’s 18,928
IRankings. Sited on sprawling Last month, Harrow School sample respondents polled by the
campuses bristling with state-of-the- (estb.1572), the world-famous British Delhi-based Centre for Forecast-
art infrastructure on the outskirts boys boarding school which has 12 ing and Research (C fore) have
of metros and big cities, they admit campuses worldwide, inaugurated again voted Indus International
day scholars and boarders, and offer its first India co-ed boarding campus School, Bengaluru India’s #1
transformative pedagogies, academ- in Bengaluru in partnership with the international day-cum-boarding
ic, co-curricular and sports educa- Amity Group, offering day and week- school awarding it the highest score
tion facilities of global standards and ly boarding options. Likewise, Wel- among all categories of international
high-quality teachers, often expatri- lington College, another venerable schools, followed by Pathways
ate headmasters. Another win-win British boarding school (estb.1853), World School, Gurgaon, ranked
proposition is that day scholars inaugurated a day-cum-boarding #2 jointly with The International
benefit from the excellent infrastruc- campus in Pune on September 14, School Bangalore and Green-
ture and sports facilities built for in partnership with the Dehradun- wood High International, Ben-
boarders, the latter by way of student based Unison Group. galuru at #3.
body diversity. Since they are barely a few Despite the International Bac-
Therefore, it’s unsurprising that months old, these mint-new day- calaureate (IB)-affiliated Indus
the number of international day- cum-boarding schools have not been International School, Bengaluru
cum-boarding schools countrywide included in the EWISR 2023-24 field (IIS-B, estb.2003) having topped this
is rising year on year. Against 28 survey which concluded in July- category for over a decade, principal
schools ranked in this category in August. However, they are likely to Sarojini Rao expresses delight
2016-17, the number has risen to disrupt the league table of India’s that IIS-B is ranked India #1 for the
45 in EWISR 2023-24. Moreover, best international day-cum-boarding 12th consecutive year with top scores
their increasing popularity within schools next year. under the parameters of teacher wel-
the country’s upper middle class has Meanwhile, the EWISR 2023-24 fare and development, leadership/
prompted globally renowned foreign league table of international day- management quality, community
boarding schools to set up shop in cum-boarding schools has a placid service and curriculum and pedagogy

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