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INDIA’S TOP-RANKED GIRLS BOARDING SCHOOLS

Girls boarding schools are
valuable national assets
because they provide
access to a wide range of
co-curricular and sports
education and greater
personality development
opportunities, than to girl
children in day schools

lthough gender segregated
schools are fading out of
fashion as testified by the
Aexplosion of co-ed schools
in all categories, in the world’s most
diverse, multi-ethnic, multi-religious
nation with millions of households Top-ranked SKV principal Nishi Misra: timely good news
governed by strict conservative mo-
res that discourage if not prohibit, and other genre primary-secondary G irl s S c h ool , D e h ra du n , and is
social interaction between boys and schools. Although your editors believe ranked #1 this year. Ec ol e G l ob a l e
girl children from early age, gender that multiplication and proliferation I n te rn a tion a l irl s S c h ool , D e h -
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segregated, especially, all-girls schools of co-ed schools, which encourage in- ra du n is promoted to #3 (from #5
serve a useful social purpose. teraction between boys and girl chil- in 2021-22) jointly with M a y o G irl s
They enable girl children who dren from early age, is the preferable C ol l e g e , A j m e r (2). H op e tow n
would otherwise be confined to home option because they facilitate mind- G irl s , D e h ra du n at #4 and B irl a
and hearth and denied high and higher sets of mutual respect and gender B a l i a V idy a p e e th , P i a n i #5 re-
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secondary school education, to avail it. egalitarianism during schooling years, tain their ranks of 2021-22 at high
Arguably, girls boarding schools ren- girls boarding schools — institutions table.
der greater service and opportunity to equipped with excellent contemporary Further down the Top 10 table as
the cause of women’s emancipation infrastructure — which enable girl well, there’s modest re-arrangement
than girls day schools inasmuch as children to access co-curricular, life of the seating order. V idy a D e v i
boarders are provided egalitarian en- skills and sports education are valu- J in da l S c h ool , H is a r (Haryana) is
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vironments far removed from conser- able national assets. It’s a telling sta- promoted to #6 (7); e rita g e irl s ,
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vative home environments in which tistic of the high respect the best girls U da i u r to #8 (10) jointly with a n -
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gender inequality is routinely prac- residential schools are accorded by in- ta g e G irl s S c h ool , D e h ra du n (11);
tised. Besides, girls boarding schools formed society that aggregate scores M ody S c h ool , L a k s h m a n g a rh
offer students access to a wide range of the Top 4 girls boarding schools in (Rajasthan) to #9 (12); S h i a l l y
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of co-curricular and sports opportu- EWISR 2022-23 are greater than of H il l s I n te rn a tion a l , D e h ra du n
nities which tend to be denied to girl the Top 4 boys boarding schools. to #10 (16) jointly with the previously
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children in day schools. Against this backdrop, there is a unranked oon irl s c h ool , e h -
Therefore ever since the sui generis rearrangement of seating at the top ra du n .
EducationWorld India School Rank- table of girls boarding schools this “We are delighted to learn that
ings were introduced 15 years ago, year. At the very top, the newly refur- SKV has regained its #1 pre-pandemic
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girls (day and boarding) schools have bished S c i di K a n y a V idy a l a y a , ranking. This is really good news as
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been accorded as much importance as G w a l ior (SKV) ranked #2 in 2021-22 it comes at a time when we have just
league tables ranking co-ed schools has exchanged places with W e l h a m completed construction of our new
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