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Cover Story EW INDIA SCHOOL RANKINGS 2024-25

INDIA’S TOP 20 DAY SCHOOLS

VINTAGE LEGACY VINTAGE LEGACY VINTAGE LEGACY
GIRLS DAY BOYS DAY DAY-CUM-BOARDING
1 St. Mary’s School, Mazgaon, Mumbai
1 St. Mary’s School, Pune 1 Daly College, Indore
2 La Martiniere Girls College, Lucknow 2 St. Joseph’s Boys High School, Bengaluru 2 Modern School, Barakhamba Road, Delhi
3 The JB Petit High School for Girls, 3 St. Edward’s School, Shimla 3 Barnes School & Junior College, Devlali,
Mumbai 3 La Martiniere for Boys, Kolkata Nashik
4 Bai Avabai Framji Petit Girls High School, 4 St. Xavier’s Collegiate School, Kolkata 3 The Rajkumar College, Rajkot
Bandra (W), Mumbai 5 St. Stanislaus High School, Mumbai 4 Tashi Namgyal Academy, Gangtok
5 La Martiniere for Girls, Kolkata 6 The Bishop’s School, Camp, Pune 5 Madras Christian College Higher
6 Villa Theresa High School, Peddar Road, 7 Calcutta Boys School Secondary School, Chennai
Mumbai 7 La Martiniere Boys College, Lucknow 6 Mount Hermon School, Darjeeling
6 The JB Vachha High School, Dadar, 8 Don Bosco High School, Matunga, 7 Rajkumar College, Raipur
Mumbai Mumbai 8 Dr. Graham’s Homes, Kalimpong
6 Bishop Cotton Girls’ School, Bengaluru 9 St. Edmund’s School, Shillong 9 Huddard High School, Kanpur
7 Loreto House, Middleton, Kolkata 10 St. Xavier’s High School, Fort, Mumbai 10 St. Joseph’s College, Coonoor
8 Good Shepherd Matriculation Hr Sec 10 Central Hindu Boys School, Varanasi
School, Nungambakkam, Chennai 11 St. Lawrence High School, Kolkata
9 Queen Mary School, VP Road, Mumbai 12 St. James School, Kolkata
9 Convent of Jesus & Mary, Bangla Sahib 13 Bishop Cotton Boys School, Bengaluru
Marg, Delhi
14 Baldwin Boys’ High School, Bengaluru
10 Sacred Heart Matriculation Hr Sec 15 St. Joseph’s College, Prayagraj
School, Church Park, Chennai
10 St. Thomas Girls Sr Sec School, Mandir 16 St. Francis D’Assisi High School, Borivali,
Marg, Delhi Mumbai
17 St. Vincent’s High School, Pune
11 Loreto Convent, Darjeeling
18 St. Francis College, Lucknow
12 Convent of Jesus & Mary High School,
Dehradun 19 St. Joseph’s Higher Secondary School,
13 Loreto Convent, Shillong Thiruvananthapuram
14 St. Joseph’s Convent High School, Patna 19 The Scottish Church Collegiate School,
Kolkata
15 Mount Carmel High School, Ahmedabad
20 Christ Church Boys Senior Secondary
16 Gokhale Memorial Girls School, Kolkata School, Jabalpur
17 St. Francis Xavier Girls High School,
Bengaluru VEN THOUGH PUBLIC K-12 EDUCATION IN post-indepen-
18 Loreto Convent Intermediate College, dence India was foolishly neglected by omniscient central
Lucknow E planners and shallow pundits with disastrous consequenc-
19 Convent of Jesus & Mary, Ambala Cantt es — contemporary India is ranked among the world’s
20 Convent Girls High School, Prabhadevi, poorest and most illiterate countries — somewhat para-
Mumbai doxically, the newly liberated country also hosted a good
number of premier boarding schools such as Lawrence
Sanawar and Lovedale, The Doon School, Bishop Cot-
ton (Shimla and Bengaluru), Welham Boys (Dehradun),
Woodstock, Mussoorie and Kodaikanal International, among others.
Yet there was little information in the public domain about these excellent
schools, many of them established during the heyday of the British Raj. Well-
to-do parents selected premier schools for their children on the basis of word-
of-mouth information and/or because of legacy considerations, i.e, they were
alumni of these institutions. Little hard information was available to compare
and contrast the relative merits of the country’s best schools.
Dismayingly, public education — and education in general — continued to
remain a back-burner issue for almost half a century until EducationWorld
(EW) was launched in 1999 as the country’s first education news and features
magazine with the serious mission to “build the pressure of public opinion to
make education the #1 item on the national agenda”. Shortly thereafter in 2007,

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