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education to students. Our top score for co-curricular   score under community service. We have a unique
         education is also well-deserved as our children from ju-  twinning programme with a rural school in a Adivasi
         nior-most classes exhibit tremendous confidence when   dominated area under which we share curriculum and
         participating in performing arts programmes includ-  best practices with them and their class X students
         ing elocution, debates, theatre and music. Shyness and   come and live with us for several days every year. This
         diffidence has completely disappeared from this school.   outreach programme has also sensitized our children
         But although the highest score we have been awarded   to the problems of under-privileged rural schools and
         under several other parameters including academic   children” — Fr. Yohan Alphonso (centre), Direc-
         reputation, curriculum and pedagogy and leadership   tor, St. Mary’s School, Mazgaon, Mumbai (estb.
         — which is a tribute to the team — are highly satisfac-  1864) which has 1,348 students and 113 teachers and
         tory, I believe we should have been awarded a higher   staff on its muster rolls.

         State Rankings





           Rank   Karnataka                        Total    Rank   West Bengal                      Total

            India 2024  State 2024                (1600)     India 2024  State 2024                (1600)
                                                                                                   score
                                                  score

           2   1   St. Joseph’s Boys High School, Bengaluru   1279    3   1   La Martiniere for Boys, Kolkata   1262
           13   2   Bishop Cotton Boys School, Bengaluru   1178    4   2   St. Xavier’s Collegiate School, Kolkata   1260
           14   3   Baldwin Boys’ High School, Bengaluru   1163    7   3   Calcutta Boys School     1235
                                                            11   4   St. Lawrence High School, Kolkata   1215
                                                            12   5   St. James School, Kolkata      1190
                                                            19   6   The Scottish Church Collegiate School, Kolkata  1055
           Rank   Maharashtra
                                                  Total
            India 2024  State 2024                (1600)
                                                  score



           1   1   St. Mary’s School, Mazgaon, Mumbai   1294
           5   2   St. Stanislaus High School, Mumbai   1251
           6   3   The Bishop’s School, Camp, Pune   1249
           8   4   Don Bosco High School, Matunga, Mumbai   1222
           10   5   St. Xavier’s High School, Fort, Mumbai   1218
           16   6   St. Francis D’Assisi High School, Borivali, Mumbai   1142
           17   7   St. Vincent’s High School, Pune   1136
                                                           La Martiniere for Boys, Kolkata facade: West Bengal #1



                                                            Rank   Others
                                                                                                    Total
           Rank   Uttar Pradesh                    Total     India 2024  State 2024                score
                                                                                                   (1600)
            India 2024  State 2024                (1600)     3   1   Himachal Pradesh: St. Edward’s School, Shimla   1262
                                                  score

                                                             19   1  Kerala: St. Joseph’s Higher Secondary School,
           7   1   La Martiniere Boys College, Lucknow   1235         Thiruvananthapuram            1055
           10   2   Central Hindu Boys School, Varanasi   1218    20   1   Madhya Pradesh: Christ Church Boys Senior
           15   3   St. Joseph’s College, Prayagraj   1157          Secondary School, Jabalpur      1002
           18   4   St. Francis College, Lucknow   1119      9   1   Meghalaya: St. Edmund’s School, Shillong   1219


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