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Institution Profile

Gurukul The School, Ghaziabad

Established in 2002, GTS-G has swiftly developed into a progressive CBSE-affiliated K-12
school ranked among the Top 25 in Delhi NCR in the EW India School Rankings 2021-22

AUTAR NEHRU

ITED ON A 10-ACRE state-
of-the-art campus off the
Delhi-Meerut Expressway in
SGhaziabad (pop.2 million),
Gurukul The School, Ghaziabad (GTS-
G, estb.2002) has swiftly developed
into a progressive 21st century school
providing highly qualified teachers,
tech-enabled pedagogies, rich sports
and co-curricular education and ex-
cellent student learning outcomes. In
the latest EW India School Rankings
2021-22, GTS-G is ranked among the
Top 3 co-ed day schools of Ghaziabad
and among the Top 25 in Delhi NCR.
Affiliated with the Delhi-based CBSE,
this 20-year-old school has an enrol-
ment of 2,055 students tutored by 162
well-trained teachers
An engineering graduate of Pune’s
Savitribai Phule University, Sachin GTS main block: modernity with values credo
Vats, founder-director of GTS-G,
says the prime objective behind the sure, which has earned ers ensured that chil-
school’s promotion two decades ago GTS-G “great trust and dren’s learning was never
was to provide children of the fast- appreciation” of its disrupted and provided
expanding city of Ghaziabad access to parents community. full remedial learning
internationally benchmarked K-12 ed- Immediately after the support while our coun-
ucation. “During my school days, I had lockdown of schools was selors supported stu-
to travel 30 km daily to Delhi/Noida announced in March dents’ mental health and
for good quality education. Years lat- 2020, GTS-G switched wellbeing,” says Vats.
er, this memory prompted me to es- to online platforms such Sachin Vats The school manage-
tablish a school which would offer the as Google Classroom, ment and teachers’ com-
best infrastructure, pedagogies and Zoom and MS Teams to smoothly mitment to ensuring learning continu-
teachers. This pursuit of excellence transition to digital teaching-learn- ity during the pandemic has paid off
combined with my philosophy of of- ing. Simultaneously, the school’s 162 by way of excellent results in CBSE
fering education blending ‘modernity teachers received intensive training school-leaving exams. In the 2020-
with values’ has enabled us to develop in online teaching-learning pedago- 21 CBSE class XII boards, the GTS-G
GTS-G into a high-quality institution gies and ICT (information commu- cohort averaged 92.89 percent and
in a short span of time,” says Vats, nication technologies) utilisation. On 88.95 percent in the class X board ex-
who started GTS-G with a first batch average, the school’s teachers receive amination.
of 50 students in 2002 under the aegis 300 hours of continuous professional To provide students balanced and
of Gurukul Education Society. Today, development (CPD) annually. integrated education, the school has
this school receives five admission ap- “The past two years have been a generously invested in contemporary
plications for every seat in nursery. great learning experience with the academic, co-curricular and sports
Vats is especially pleased with the school succeeding in developing high- education facilities. The thematically
school’s response during the Covid-19 ly effective online, offline and hybrid designed ten-acre campus houses a
pandemic prompted 82-weeks clo- teaching-learning models. Our teach- fully air-conditioned building with 93

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