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INDIA’S BEST DAY SCHOOLS


                    CO-ED DAY               CO-ED DAY                  GIRLS                   BOYS
               1   Step by Step, Noida    17   Vidya Niketan School,      1   Sacred Heart Sr Sec     1   St. John’s High School,
               2   Heritage Xperiential        Bengaluru            School, Chandigarh      Chandigarh
                  Learning School, Gurugram    17   RN Podar School, Mumbai     2   Rajmata Krishna Kumari      2   Campion School, Fort,
               3   Vasant Valley School, Delhi    17   Gitanjali School, Hyderabad       Girls Public School, Jodhpur      Mumbai
               4   Inventure Academy,      18   Lotus Valley International      3   Modern High School for      3   St. Columba’s School, Delhi
                  Bengaluru                School, Noida            Girls, Kolkata       4   Birla High School, Moira
               5   The Mother’s International      18   Gyanshree School, Noida     4   Carmel Convent School,         Street, Kolkata
                  School, Delhi         18   Udgam School for Children,        Chandigarh    5   DAV Boys Senior Secondary
                                           Thaltej, Ahmedabad

               5   The Shri Ram School,                          5   Maharani Gayatri Devi Girls         School, Gopalapuram,
                  Vasant Vihar/Moulsari, Delhi    18   DPS, Bangalore North       School, Jaipur      Chennai
               6   The Valley School,      19   DPS, Bopal, Ahmedabad     6   NASR School, Khairatabad,      6   DAV Boys Senior Secondary
                  Bengaluru             19   Eklavya School, Ahmedabad      Hyderabad       School, Mogappair, Chennai
               6   Vidyashilp Academy,      20   Amity International School,      7   Carmel Convent School,      7   Don Bosco School,
                  Bengaluru                Sector 46, Gurugram       Delhi                  Park Circus, Kolkata
               7   Smt. Sulochanadevi      20   Blue Bells Model School,      8   Presentation Convent Sr      8   MC Kejriwal Vidyapeeth,

                                           Sector 4, Gurugram
                  Singhania School, Thane                           Secondary School, Jammu        Howrah (WB)
               7   The School KFI, Adyar,      20   Lotus Valley International      8   Walsingham House School,      9   NASR Boys School,
                                           School, Gurugram

                  Chennai               20   Amity International School,        Mumbai      Hyderabad
               8   Nirmal Bhartia School, Delhi       Noida      9   Uttam School for Girls,      10   Don Bosco School,
               8   Sanskriti School,      20   Shiv Nadar School, Noida       Ghaziabad       Siliguri (WB)
                  Chanakyapuri, Delhi    20   Children’s Academy,      10   Holy Child School,
               9   Mallya Aditi International         Kandivali (Ashok Nagar),        Ghaziabad
                  School, Bengaluru        Mumbai                10   DAV Girls Senior
               9   Jamnabai Narsee School,                          Secondary School,
                  Mumbai                                            Lloyds Road, Chennai
               10   Glendale Academy,
                  Hyderabad
               11   Springdales School, Dhaula    DAY-CUM-BOARDING             or centuries and even 150 years after
                  Kuan, Delhi           1+   The Emerald Heights
               11   CHIREC International         International School, Indore   British educationist and administra-
                  School, Hyderabad     1   SAI International School,    F     tor  Thomas  Macaulay  imposed  the
               11   Vidyaranya High School,        Bhubaneswar                 formal English education system
                  Hyderabad             2   Greenwood High, Bengaluru          upon  the  Indian subcontinent, the
               11   Ahlcon International School,                               overwhelming majority of parents en-
                  Delhi                 3   DPS, RK Puram, Delhi               rolled their children in local schools
               12   The Shri Ram School,      4   Pallikoodam School,          on the basis of informal consultation
                  Aravali, Gurugram        Kottayam                            and recommendation of friends and
               12   The Heritage School,     5   DPS, Vasant Kunj, Delhi
                  Kolkata               5   The Sanskaar Valley School,    relatives. This continued to be prevalent practice after en-
               13   Sardar Patel Vidyalaya,        Bhopal      lightened administrators permitted the establishment of
                  Delhi                 6   DPS, Mathura Road, Delhi   high-end boarding schools in the country’s salubrious hill
               14   Suchitra Academy,      6   Neerja Modi School, Jaipur  stations of Mussoorie, Sanawar in the north and Ootaca-
                  Hyderabad             7   The Mann School, Delhi   mund and Kodaikanal down south in the mid-19th century.
               14   The Future Kids School,      7   Yadavindra Public School,    Modelled on imperial Britain’s famous boarding schools
                  Hyderabad                Mohali              for children of administrators of the empire, they also ad-
               15   Springdales School,      8   The Hyderabad Public    mitted children on the basis of word-of-mouth publicity
                  Pusa Road, Delhi         School, Ramanthapur  and recommendations of knowledgeable and influential
               16   Strawberry Fields High      9   Maharana Mewar Public    members of society.
                  School, Chandigarh        School, Udaipur      However towards the end of the 20th century after Dr.
               16   Sishya School, Adyar,      9   Central Public Sr Sec School,    Howard Gardner, professor of cognition and education
                  Chennai                  Udaipur
               17   Shiv Nadar School,      10   Shree Sarasswathi Vidhyaah    at Harvard University, produced his path-breaking Frames
                  Gurugram                 Mandheer, Coimbatore   of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences (1983) and
               17   Suncity School, Gurugram     10   The GeeKay World School,    Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons in Theory and
               17   DPS, Bangalore East       Vellore          Practice (1993) which posited that every child/individual
                                        10   DPS, Nacharam, Hyderabad  is gifted with one or more of eight major “intelligences”


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