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India’s best vintage legacy day-cum-boarding schools

Teacher welfare & development (100) students (100) services (100)

Rank Competence of faculty (200) Academic reputation (100) Co-curricular education & internationalism (100) Sports education (100) Curriculum & pedagogy Individual attention to Leadership / management Parental involvement (100) Infrastructure provision (100) Mental & emotional well-being Special needs education (100) Value for money (100) Community service (100) Quality of
2021 2022 2023 2024 (HOTS) (100) quality (100)

9 1 1 1 Daly College, Indore 80 175 77 84 87 81 76 93 73 89 81 84 81 77 80 1318
3 3 2 2 Modern School, Barakhamba Road, Delhi 83 176 83 86 85 84 74 75 76 93 79 69 82 81 84 1310
26 4 3 3 Barnes School & Junior College, Devlali,
Nashik 79 165 75 80 79 74** 69 83 74 77 74 60 76 83 79 1227
58 7 4 3 The Rajkumar College, Rajkot 81 164 77 81 83 77 70 80 71 83 72 55 77 78 78 1227
32 8 7 4 Tashi Namgyal Academy, Gangtok 79 159 75 78 76 76 77 78 70 79 75 64 75 77 75 1213
60 5 5 5 Madras Christian College Higher
Secondary School, Chennai 75 164 79 78 84 72 69 80 72 74 64 65 81 75 79 1211
NR 10 6 6 Mount Hermon School, Darjeeling 75 151 84 69 75 81 76 74 79 79 69 67 73 77 64 1193
15 9 8 7 Rajkumar College, Raipur 79 165 71 79 76 71 72 78 63 71 68 45 67 71 68 1144
47 6 9 8 Dr. Graham’s Homes, Kalimpong 70 152 74 71 75 75 70 65 64 69 65 68 69 77 77 1141
NR 10 10 9 Huddard High School, Kanpur 68 121 63 72 68 70 70 60 73 64 68 55 70 77 64 1063
NR NR NR 10 St. Joseph’s College, Coonoor 65 138 64 68 65 64 66 66 61 65 55 67 73 64 60 1041

** Representative students of these schools wrote the LogIQids Higher Order Thinking Test

I am delighted that Daly College has retained its #1
ranking in the prestigious EW special category of
“vintage day-cum-boarding schools. I have been prin-
cipal here for just over two years and several new initia-
tives that have been introduced are proving very success-
ful. To improve under the critical parameter of teacher
competence, apart form our regular teacher training and
development programmes, we have started an indepen-
dent teachers audit which has been very well received by
the staff. In co-curricular education, we have participated
in the G. Literati International Literature Festival and
our Oxford Union style debates have attracted promi-
nent politicians and public intellectuals to lead student
teams. I am especially satisfied with our top score under
the sports education parameter because our children return with bagful of trophies from inter-school and IPSC tourna-
ments, particularly in shooting events. Our top score under individual attention to students is also very satisfying as I
have introduced a students-centric open door policy which has had the additional benefit of raising students’ maturity
quotient as all students reflect deeply before availing this facility. Evidently this has improved our children’s mental and
emotional well-being as reflected in our top score under this very important parameter. Moreover our top score under
the parameter of special needs education is well deserved as as we have established a Special Focus unit staffed by four
dedicated expert teachers to work towards mainstreaming challenged children. All in all this has been a very good year
for us in our effort to combine our ancient heritage with modern 21st century teaching-learning” — Dr. Gunmeet
Bindra, Principal, Daly College (estb. 1882). Unsurprisingly Daly College is awarded a very high top score under the
parameter of leadership. Currently, the CBSE and Cambridge International affiliated-DC has 1,680 student (including
421 boarders) mentored by 139 teachers on its muster rolls

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