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Cover Story EW CO-ED DAY SCHOOLS RANKINGS 2024-25

INDIA’S BEST CO-ED DAY SCHOOLS

When children start learning together from young age, 25 co-ed day schools national, states
male children in particular, learn the virtues of empathy, and city league tables.
This year, the Bangalore-based In-
respect and gender egalitarianism from their early years. venture Academy (IA, estb.2005),
Therefore it is a sign of progress that the league table of ranked #3 in 2023-24 and among
co-ed day schools — of sufficiently high repute to be ranked the Top 5 for several years, is ranked
— is the longest in EWISR 2024-25 India’s #1 co-ed day school with top
scores under six parameters — teacher
welfare & development, sports educa-
tion, curriculum & pedagogy HOTS
(higher order thinking skills) infra-
structure, special needs education and
community service — of the 14 param-
eters of school education excellence
ideated by EducationWorld.
“It’s been a long wait for Inventure
to attain its rightful place at the very
top of the EWISR national league
table and validation of our mission
set 21 years ago to ‘empower learners
to realise their full potential, ignite
change and create positive impact on
society’. And by learners, we mean
teachers and students,” says Noo-
raine Fazal, Managing Trustee of
IA. An alumna of Mount Carmel Col-
lege, Bangalore and Boston Univer-
sity, Fazal acquired over a decade’s
communications and admin experi-
Inventure Academy’s Nooraine Fazal: mission validation ence with the transnational Reuters
Group during postings in Dubai, Abu
he best antidote to the rash of In the 2024-25 national league ta- Dhabi, Sydney and Hong Kong before
crimes against women that is ble of 3,000 co-ed day schools, there returning to India to co-promote (with
dominating media headlines has been considerable churn this year Prestige Estates) the CISCE and Cam-
Tcountrywide, is high quality because our new market research bridge International (UK)-affiliated
K-12 education, especially co-ed edu- agency, the Bangalore-based A.Z. Inventure Academy, Bangalore.
cation. When children start learning Research Partners which conducted Fazal is especially pleased with the
together from young age, male chil- this year’s survey after termination of top scores awarded to IA under the
dren in particular, learn the virtues our association with the Delhi-based parameter of teacher welfare and de-
of empathy, respect and gender egali- C fore early this year, has sampled a velopment, because this K-12 school
tarianism from their early years. In broader respondents’ database. invests heavily in teacher training
the circumstances, it is a sign of prog- Hitherto sample respondents were with all teachers obliged to experience
ress that the league table of co-ed day drawn from SEC (socio-economic cat- 20 days per year of team-building and
schools — of sufficiently high repute egory) ‘A’ — upper middle and elite leadership dispensed by the faculty of
to be ranked — is the longest in the classes in terms of income and social the top-ranked University of Pennsyl-
EducationWorld India School Rank- status. For EWISR 2024-25, the sam- vania (USA). Ditto for curriculum and
ings 2024-25, which since they were ple respondents is more broad-based, pedagogy development, as a member
initiated in 2007 have evolved into the a mix of SEC ‘A’ and SEC ‘B’ respon- institution of the US-based NEASC
world’s largest and most comprehen- dents. Therefore, there’s considerable (New England Association of Schools
sive schools ranking annual survey. rearrangement of seating in the 2024- and Colleges), IA draws heavily upon

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