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Cover Story EW VINTAGE LEGACY BOYS BOARDING SCHOOLS RANKINGS 2023-24

Vintage legacy boys boarding schools national league table

Rank Teacher welfare & development (100) Competence of faculty (200) Academic reputation (100) Co-curricular education & internationalism (100) Sports education (100) Curriculum & pedagogy (hybrid learning readiness) (100) Individual attention to students (100) Leadership / management Safety & hygiene (100) Infrastructure provision Pastoral care (100) Mental & emotional well- be
2020 2021 2022 2023 quality (100) (100)

2 2 1 1 Mayo College, Ajmer 94 187 91 95 93 83 85 91 91 92 87 79 91 92 79 1430
5 4 3 2 Bishop Cotton School, Shimla 85 182 87** 92 92 81 80 88 85 87 86 78 85 88 78 1374
4 7 4 3 St. George’s College, Mussoorie 86 181 89 91 90 84 86 89 90 83 85 77 82 84 76 1373
1 3 2 4 The Scindia School, Gwalior 88 180 88 89 91 80 82 86 84 91 82 77 87 89 76 1370
7 8 5 5 St. Paul’s School, Darjeeling 83 176 86 87 89 79 78 85 88 88 79 73 80 85 80 1336
11 12 6 6 St. Joseph’s School, North Point,
Darjeeling 81 168 82 85 79 78 73 84 83 82 81 70 74 81 77 1278
NR NR 7 6 St. Joseph’s College, Nainital 79 171 79 79 83 75 79 82 83 80 80 79 77 77 75 1278
20 19 7 7 Goethals Memorial School, Kurseong 76 155 77 83 77 74 71 80 76 80 69 71 74 78 75 1216
NR NR NR 8 Birla School, Pilani 78 145 81 86 82 73 65 77 75 81 70 68 73 71 73 1198
23 29 8 9 St. Hilda’s School (Boys),Ooty 75 143 75 76 75 71 66 78 77 74 65 70 71 73 74 1163
17 20 9 10 Gurukul Kurukshetra 73 138 72 78 74 70 64 75 71 75 64 67 68 70 75 1134

** Representative students of these schools wrote the LogIQids Critical Thinking Test

It’s very gratifying to learn that Mayo College is top-ranked among all legacy schools on the parameters
ranked India’s #1 legacy boys boarding school again. of sports and co-curricular education, infrastructure and
“I attribute this to the school being agile, anticipa- quality of alumni. Since its founding in 1875 Mayo has
tory in responding to challenges and forward-looking been committed to providing holistic education balancing
in adapting contemporary technology and education academic rigour with excellent sports and co-curricular
practices. For instance we were one of the first schools education. Our 190-acre campus houses a museum and
to set up an Artificial Intelligence lab way back in 2019, is equipped with excellent sports facilities including a
and integrate the Sustainable Development Goals into the nine-hole golf course, grounds for cricket, polo, equestrian
curriculum. We also recently hosted a higher education sports among others.” — Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Surendra
fair which saw the participation of 140 universities from Kulkarni (centre), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, director of Mayo
India and abroad. It’s also reassuring that the school is College, Ajmer (estb.1875; 750 boarders and 100 teachers)

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