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Cover Story EW VINTAGE LEGACY DAY SCHOOLS RANKINGS 2025-26

Parameters of Excellence: India’s Top 10

vintage legacy day schools

(across all vintage day schools, including day-cum-boarding)

o compile the 2025-26 league tables of all vintage For the parmeters rankings of India’s Top 10 vintage leg-
legacy day schools — co-ed, boys, girls and day-cum- acy day schools, under the broad category of vintage legacy
Tboarding — 9,500 respondents comprising parents day schools, schools in each sub-category (co-ed, day-cum-
of school going students, faculty, educators & counsellors boarding, boys and girls) compete with each other.
were persuaded to rate them on 15 parameters or attri- Parameter rankings of Top 10 vintage legacy day schools
butes. On the reasoning that there is more to education (across all day school sub-categories) are set out below.
than academic or scholastic excellence (on which conven-
tional league tables published abroad are based), the re-
spondents were asked to rate schools on 15 parameters of
school education excellence including academic reputation,
curriculum and pedagogy, co-curricular education, parental Rank Community service
involvement, faculty competence, leadership, infrastruc- Rating
ture, value for money, teacher welfare, quality of alumni etc. 2023 2024 2025 (100)

10 7 1 La Martiniere Girls College, Lucknow 90
NR 1 2 Bai Avabai Framji Petit Girls High School,
Bandra (W), Mumbai 86
Rank Leadership /management 6 2 2 St. Mary’s School, Pune 86
quality Rating 5 6 3 Loreto House, Middleton, Kolkata 85
2023 2024 2025 (100) 1 4 4 St. Xavier’s Collegiate School, Kolkata 83

NR 5 4 Methodist High School, Kanpur 83
2 2 1 St. Mary’s School, Pune 94 4 8 4 Modern School, Barakhamba Road, Delhi 83
5 2 2 St. Mary’s School, Mazgaon, Mumbai 92 NR NR 5 St. Michael’s High School, Patna 82
7 3 3 Bai Avabai Framji Petit Girls High School, NR 9 6 Convent of Jesus & Mary High School, Dehradun 81
Bandra (W), Mumbai 91 NR 9 6 St. James School, Kolkata 81
NR 3 4 St. Stanislaus High School, Mumbai 87 2 NR 6 La Martiniere for Boys, Kolkata 81
4 8 5 St. Xavier’s Collegiate School, Kolkata 85 10 6 7 Bombay Scottish School, Mahim 80
NR 5 6 The JB Vachha High School, Dadar, Mumbai 84 10 NR 7 Mount Hermon School, Darjeeling 80
4 10 6 La Martiniere for Boys, Kolkata 84 6 6 8 Barnes School & Junior College, Devlali, Nashik 79
5 8 7 St. Joseph’s Boys High School, Bengaluru 83 9 7 8 St. Edward’s School, Shimla 79
NR 9 7 South Indian Education Society’s High School, 2 8 8 St. Joseph’s Boys High School, Bengaluru 79
Matunga, Mumbai 83 NR 9 8 La Martinere Boys College, Lucknow 79
8 NR 7 The Bishop’s School, Camp, Pune 83 NR NR 8 St. Stanislaus High School, Mumbai 79
9 NR 7 St. Thomas Girls Sr Sec School, Mandir Marg,
Delhi 83 NR NR 8 St. Xavier’s High School, Fort, Mumbai 79
9 7 8 The Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet 82 NR NR 8 The JB Vachha High School, Dadar, Mumbai 79
NR 7 8 Queen Mary School, VP Road, Mumbai 82 NR NR 8 Gokhale Memorial Girls School, Kolkata 79
NR 9 8 Barnes School & Junior College, Devlali, Nashik 82 3 8 9 Calcutta Boys School 78
NR 10 8 Holy Angels School, Thiruvananthapuram 82 8 NR 9 Tashi Namgyal Academy, Gangtok 78
7 8 9 La Martiniere Girls College, Lucknow 81 7 NR 9 La Martiniere for Girls, Kolkata 78
8 NR 9 Loreto Convent Intermediate College, Lucknow 81 NR NR 9 St. Thomas Girls Sr Sec School, Mandir Marg, 78

Delhi
NR NR 9 Convent of Jesus and Mary, Ambala Cantt 81 NR NR 9 Holy Angels School, Thiruvananthapuram 78
NR NR 9 St. Michael’s High School, Patna 81 NR 9 10 Bishop Cotton Girls’ School, Bengaluru 77
NR NR 9 Timpany School, Visakhapatnam 81 7 NR 10 The Rajkumar College, Rajkot 77
NR NR 10 Rajkumar College, Raipur 80 8 NR 10 The Bishop’s School, Camp, Pune 77
NR NR 10 Bishop Cotton Boys School, Bengaluru 80 NR NR 10 The Aga Khan School, Mundra, Kutch 77
NR NR 10 Central Hindu Boys School, Varanasi 80
10 NR 10 Convent of Jesus & Mary, Bangla Sahib Marg,
Delhi 80 NB: NR=Not Top 10 ranked

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