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Cover Story EW VINTAGE LEGACY BOYS BOARDING SCHOOLS RANKINGS 2025-26

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 (100) Individual attention to students (100) Leadership / management Safety & hygiene (100) Infrastructure provision Pastoral care (100) Mental & emotional well- being services (100) Quality of
2022 2023 2024 2025 quality (100) (100)

2 4 4 1 The Scindia School, Gwalior 82 182 83 91 92 85 83 79 90 86 88 75 88 82 80 1363
3 2 1 2 Bishop Cotton School, Shimla 79 158 82 84 85 78 83 90 87 90 83 75 83 85 74 1316
4 3 3 3 St. George’s College, Mussoorie 80 156 78 88 81 81 81 76 89 80 85 76 86 82 79 1298
5 5 6 4 St. Paul’s School, Darjeeling 88 175 80 85 86 73 76 77 75 83 75 78 79 83 76 1289
7 6 5 5 St. Joseph’s College, Nainital 80 151 82 86 84 67 77 80 88 82 84 77 78 92 77 1285
NR 8 7 6 Birla School, Pilani 83 148 80 76 84 80 79 87 89 84 77 75 83 78 78 1281
6 6 8 7 St. Joseph’s School, North Point,
Darjeeling 88 160 75 87 87 82 71 83 76 82 72 78 78 80 81 1280
8 9 9 8 St. Hilda’s School (Boys), Ooty 81 163 82 85 84 76 72 83 76 86 78 75 76 74 80 1271
7 7 10 9 Goethals Memorial School, Kurseong 71 157 89 79 81 79 74 82 71 74 76 73 71 77 73 1227
9 10 11 10 Gurukul Kurukshetra 74 134 62 71 63 68 72 70 77 73 67 67 71 66 68 1103

This overdue recognition is the result of collective intensive process — LSIP — among our teachers
efforts of our teachers, staff and students to con- to gather intelligence and build consensus for new
“tinuously improve and excel. This year, we recorded strategies and goals. This has resulted in a detailed
our best CBSE board exam results ever with an average blueprint to empower our teachers in the areas of
of 90.75 percent for class XII and 88 percent for class X. subject mastery, pedagogy innovation and leader-
Moreover as a staunch believer in balanced holistic edu- ship skills development. Our India #1 rank is sure to
cation, I am very happy with our top scores for academic motivate our teachers and students to continuously
reputation, sports and co-curricular education. Yet I strive for excellence” — Ajay Singh, Principal, The
am most pleased with our top scores for teacher welfare Scindia School, Gwalior (estb.1897, 610 students
and development as we recently launched a large-scale and 60 teachers)

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