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Cover Story EW IVY LEAGUE DAY SCHOOLS RANKINGS 2025-26

Parameters of Excellence: India’s Top 10 Ivy League Day Schools

(across all Ivy League day schools, including day-cum-boarding)

o compile the 2025-26 league tables of select Ivy Rank Individual attention to
League day schools — co-ed, boys, girls and day- students Rating
Tcum-boarding — sample respondents comprising 2025 (0.62)
parents, principals, and teachers were persuaded to rate
them under 15 parameters or attributes. On the reasoning 1 Vasant Valley School, Delhi 0.59
that there is more to education than academic or scholastic 2 The Cathedral and John Connon School, Mumbai 0.58
excellence (on which conventional league tables published 3 Inventure Academy, Bengaluru 0.57
abroad are based), the respondents were asked to rate 4 CHIREC International School, Hyderabad 0.56
schools on 15 parameters of school education excellence 4 Heritage Xperiential Learning School, Gurugram 0.56
including academic reputation, curriculum and pedagogy, 5 Jamnabai Narsee School, Mumbai 0.55
co-curricular education, faculty competence, leadership, 6 Daly College, Indore 0.54
infrastructure, value for money, teacher welfare, quality 6 The Heritage School, Kolkata 0.54
of alumni etc. 7 Greenwood High, Bengaluru 0.53
Parameter rankings of Top 10 Ivy League day schools 8 The JB Petit High School for Girls, Mumbai 0.52
(across all day school sub-categories) are set out below.
8 SAI International School, Bhubaneswar 0.52
8 Neerja Modi School, Jaipur 0.52
9 Sir Padampat Singhania Education Centre, Kanpur 0.51
10 DPS, RK Puram, Delhi 0.50
10 Gurukul The School, Ghaziabad 0.50
10 NASR School, Khairatabad, Hyderabad 0.50

Rank Competence of faculty Rank Parental involvement
Rating Rating
2025 (1.25) 2025 (0.62)

1 Vasant Valley School, Delhi 1.19 1 Inventure Academy, Bengaluru 0.59
2 Inventure Academy, Bengaluru 1.18 2 Vasant Valley School, Delhi 0.57
3 The Cathedral and John Connon School, Mumbai 1.17 2 Greenwood High, Bengaluru 0.57
3 Greenwood High, Bengaluru 1.17 3 Daly College, Indore 0.55
4 NASR School, Khairatabad, Hyderabad 1.15 3 The Cathedral and John Connon School, Mumbai 0.55
4 Jamnabai Narsee School, Mumbai 1.15 3 Neerja Modi School, Jaipur 0.55
4 DPS, RK Puram, Delhi 1.15 4 Heritage Xperiential Learning School, Gurugram 0.54
5 The JB Petit High School for Girls, Mumbai 1.14 4 The JB Petit High School for Girls, Mumbai 0.54
6 The Heritage School, Kolkata 1.11 4 The Heritage School, Kolkata 0.54
6 Heritage Xperiential Learning School, Gurugram 1.11 4 CHIREC International School, Hyderabad 0.54
6 Birla High School, Moira Street, Kolkata 1.11 5 Jamnabai Narsee School, Mumbai 0.53
6 Neerja Modi School, Jaipur 1.11 5 NASR School, Khairatabad, Hyderabad 0.53
7 Daly College, Indore 1.09 6 Sir Padampat Singhania Education Centre, Kanpur 0.52
8 CHIREC International School, Hyderabad 1.08 7 Birla High School, Moira Street, Kolkata 0.51
9 Gurukul The School, Ghaziabad 1.04 7 Gurukul The School, Ghaziabad 0.51
10 Sir Padampat Singhania Education Centre, Kanpur 1.03 7 SAI International School, Bhubaneswar 0.51
10 SAI International School, Bhubaneswar 1.03
8 DPS, RK Puram, Delhi 0.48

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