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EW INDIA PRESCHOOL

RANKINGS

2024-25

In this year-end issue we continue our tradition of celebrating
early childhood care and education by ranking the country’s
best preschools to enable parents to select aptitudinally
most suitable pre-primaries for youngest children. A
second objective is multiplication and upgradation of ECCE
institutions countrywide through healthy competition

Summiya Yasmeen

E ARLY CHILDHOOD CARE AND educa- INDIA TOP 10

tion (ECCE) of India’s youngest and
most vulnerable children has been
a cause close to the collective heart
of your editors since the early years
of the new millennium. To generate
awareness of the critical importance
of professionally administered ECCE, 1 Nita Mukesh Ambani Junior School — Early Years Campus,
since 2010 we have been publishing Mumbai
the annual EducationWorld India Preschool Rankings 1 Healthy Planet TGA Early Years, Wish Town, Noida
without interruption, and simultaneously convening an- 2 Kai Early Years, Whitefield, Bengaluru
nual ECCE conferences. Starting with rating and ranking 3 Besant Montessori School, Juhu, Mumbai
Top 20 preschools in six major cities, the pioneer EW India 4 Swarnim International Preschool, NSC Bose Road, Kolkata
Preschool Rankings (EWIPR) has evolved into the coun-
try’s largest and most comprehensive preschools rankings 5 CHIREC, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad
survey, with league tables rating over 600 preschools in 19 6 Amiown — Amity’s Caring Preschool, Sector 27, Gurugram
cities countrywide under ten parameters of early childhood 7 The Magic Years, Vasant Vihar, Delhi
education excellence, and ranking them inter se. 8 Vaels International School -- Nursery & Primary, Neelankarai,
The annual EWIPR and your editors’ persistent advo- Chennai
cacy of universal professional ECCE has borne fruit. The 9 DPS Kidszone, Neelbad, Bhopal
National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 mandates three 10 Teeny Boppers Playschool, Visakhapatnam
years of compulsory ECCE for all children in the 3-6 age
bracket countrywide. To this end, the centuries-old 10+2
school system has been replaced by a new 5+3+3+4 school

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