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Cover Story EW VINTAGE LEGACY BOYS BOARDING SCHOOLS RANKINGS 2022 23

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- being services (100) Quality of a
2019 2020 2021 2022 quality (100) (100)

2 2 2 1 Mayo College, Ajmer 95 190 90 93 94 84 86 91 92 95 87 81 91 90 78 1437
1 1 3 2 The Scindia School, Gwalior 93 188* 96 92 95 85 87 92 89 93 86 79 89 89 82 1435
4 5 4 3 Bishop Cotton School, Shimla 90 187 89 91 93 82 81 86 85 86 82 76 86 86 77 1377
3 4 7 4 St. George’s College, Mussoorie 89 178 86 86 90 80 76 84 88 83 81 73 82 85 76 1337
4 7 8 5 St. Paul’s School, Darjeeling 84 173 85 85 83 77 77 82 87 86 80 71 81 83 79 1313
10 11 12 6 St. Joseph’s School, North Point,
Darjeeling 79 172 83 83 80 74 74 81 84 80 81 68 75 79 76 1269
13 20 19 7 Goethals Memorial School, Kurseong 77 152 80 80 78 72 72 77 77 78 70 69 75 76 74 1207
NR 23 29 8 St. Hilda’s School, Ooty 76 145 77 74 73 69 67 75 78 72 66 68 72 71 73 1156
NR 17 20 9 Gurukul Kurukshetra 72 136 79 76 75 68 65 72 72 73 65 65 69 68 74 1129

* Representative teachers of these schools had the confidence to write the CENTA Subject Competency Test (English, maths & science)

It gives me great pleasure to learn that Educ ation- in the ease with which our staff can perform in a hybrid
W orld has made a distinct category of vintage legacy learning environment. I am also elated about our #1 rank
“schools and we are proud that Mayo College is for teacher welfare and development across all vintage
ranked India’s #1 boys boarding school in this new cat- boarding schools in the EW survey. At the same time
egory. During the pandemic we evolved an SOP (standard we are building cutting edge facilities which truly reflect
operating procedure) which helped us to become an an- our vision of combining tradition with modernity — as
ticipatory, responsive and agile institution, and a model reflected in our top score for infrastructure” — t. G e n .
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for other schools. We also used this time to invest heavily ( R e td. ) S u re n dra K u l k a rn i, PVSM, AVSM, VSM,
in professional development of our faculty including director of M a y o C ol l e g e , A j m e r (estb.1875) which has
pastoral care staff. The results of these efforts are evident an enrolment of 750 boarders and 94 teachers

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