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Cover Story EW CO-ED BOARDING SCHOOLS RANKINGS 2023-24

INDIA’S MOST ADMIRED

CO-ED BOARDING SCHOOLS

With each passing year, the EWISR league tables of gender passing year, the EWISR league
segregated all-boys and all-girls schools are shrinking while tables of gender segregated all-boys
the league tables ranking co-ed day and co-ed boarding and all-girls schools are shrinking
while the league tables ranking co-ed
schools are expanding, indicating that the slow march day and co-ed boarding schools are
towards gender equality is accelerating expanding, indicating that the slow
march towards gender equality is
accelerating.
Last year following complaints
of “uneven playing field” between
newly promoted greenfield schools
and well-established vintage/legacy
boarding schools — some of them
over a century old — we introduced
a separate league table for vintage
(over 90 years old) schools to be
ranked inter se. The larger number
of relatively newer schools are rated
and ranked separately.
Against this introductory back-
drop, in the league table of co-ed
boarding (non-vintage) schools there
is a major reshuffle of the top table
seating order.
The low-profile, off-the-beat-
en-track Pinegrove School,
Dharampur (Himachal Pradesh),
Pinegrove, Dharampur’s Capt. A.J. Singh: teacher development outcome ranked #4 in 2020-21 and #3 last
year, is the country’s #1 co-ed board-
ne of the major posi- learn mutual self-respect and gender ing school of 2023-24, followed by
tive developments in egalitarianism. For this socially ben- the Assam Valley School, Balipa-
K-12 education in post- eficial development the Central and ra at #2 (#2 last year) jointly ranked
Oindependence India has state governments which decreed with SelaQui International,
been widespread acceptance of co-education in government schools Dehradun (4). These schools have
co-education. Whereas in the pre- ab initio after independence, deserve outranked Chinmaya Interna-
independence era and even for sev- a great share of the credit. tional, Coimbatore which was #1
eral decades after freedom, gender However despite co-ed schools last year and is ranked #3 in 2023-
segregated schools were normative, having become normative, girl 24. Miles Bronson, Guwahati #4
in the latter years of the 20th century children in Indian society continue (5) co-ranked with Kasiga School,
and particularly since the dawn to suffer socio-economic discrimina- Dehradun (6) and Jain Interna-
of the new millennium, the over- tion and inequality. Therefore the tional, Bengaluru jointly ranked
whelming majority of greenfield day, fact that the co-ed day and board- #5 (6) with Sahyadri School,
boarding and international schools, ing school league tables have been Pune (8), complete the top table.
are co-ed. This is a socially beneficial expanding since the annual Educa- The Top 10 league table is com-
development because when boys tionWorld India School Rankings pleted with Punjab Public School,
and girls start learning and playing (EWISR) survey was first introduced Nabha at #6 (9), Anubhuti
together from a young age they also in 2007, is a good augury. With each School, Jalgaon (Maharashtra)

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