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Cover Story EW PUNE PRESCHOOL RANKINGS 2024-25

Pune’s top-ranked franchised preschools

Rank Competence of teachers (200) Teacher welfare & development (100) Infrastructure provision (75) Individual attention to students (100) Value for money (100) Parental involvement (100) Curriculum & pedagogy Safety and hygiene (100) Leadership / management Special needs education (100) TOTAL SCORE (1125)
2019 2022 2023 2024 (150) quality (100)

1 3 2 1 EuroKids Preschool, Ashok Nagar 165 70 67 77 73 76 123 74 71 57 853
NR 2 1 2 Podar Prep, Wakad 167 65 70 74 77 77 123 71 76 51 851
NR 4 3 3 Podar Prep, Aundh 165 64 68 75 75 65 121 76 69 55 833
2 1 4 3 Little Millennium, Viman Nagar 166 67 64 72 73 71 118 78 70 54 833
5 5 5 4 EuroKids Preschool, Aundh 160 67 59 68 70 66 115 75 69 54 803
NR NR NR 4 Podar Prep, Edden Road, Wakad 159 69 61 65 69 70 113 72 68 57 803
NR NR 6 5 FirstCry Intellitots Preschool, Hadapsar 162 64 64 67 70 67 118 67 70 48 797
NR 6 7 6 Bachpan Playschool, Dighi 160 59 60 73 71 69 117 66 65 48 788
NR NR NR 7 Makoons Preschool, Wadgaon Sheri 158 61 59 70 68 71 105 70 69 53 784
NR NR NR 8 Makoons Preschool, Baner 160 60 63 75 68 66 114 67 66 44 783
7 7 8 9 EuroKids Preschool, Viman Nagar 161 60 63 78 65 67 112 68 63 42 779
NR 10 9 9 Hello Kids — Bluebells, Hadapsar 159 55 61 68 66 69 118 63 70 50 779
10 12 10 9 EuroKids Preschool, Dhayari 158 64 60 71 68 64 112 62 65 55 779
NR NR NR 10 Makoons Preschool, Sinhagad Road 141 64 68 72 67 68 109 68 66 51 774
NR 9 9 11 Podar Jumbo Kids, Bavdhan 156 63 59 70 69 68 115 65 64 43 772
NR 11 11 12 Kangaroo Kids International Preschool, Pimple Saudagar 158 63 59 70 63 68 110 66 60 49 766
NR 14 12 13 TIME Kids, Baner 144 57 54 70 60 67 102 66 64 50 734
NR 15 13 14 Maple Bear Canadian Preschool, Pimple Saudagar 133 48 57 67 66 73 112 69 63 45 733
NR NR NR 15 Little Millennium, Balewadi Highway 132 68 61 69 64 66 89 66 65 49 729
NR NR NR 16 Little Millennium, Wakad 2 135 52 62 69 64 65 105 64 64 46 726
NR NR NR 17 Little Millennium, Katraj-Kondhwa Road 147 51 48 65 62 67 95 59 67 64 725
NR NR NR 17 FirstCry Intellitots Preschool, Magarpatta 145 48 51 66 67 63 101 60 65 59 725
NR NR NR 18 Little Millennium, Baner, Pashan Link Road 129 48 45 67 80 78 107 64 59 47 724
NR NR NR 19 Little Millennium, Somatane 143 54 49 57 60 57 115 68 68 48 719
NR 13 14 20 Kidzee, Viman Nagar 136 44 58 64 60 65 105 68 62 50 712
NR 14 15 21 FirstCry Intellitots Preschool, Aundh 139 45 53 67 60 61 103 62 62 47 699
NR 17 16 22 Shanti Juniors, Pimple Saudagar 135 43 54 61 60 66 109 63 60 43 694
NR NR 17 23 Podar Prep Plus, Hadapsar 132 48 54 64 62 64 99 67 57 45 692
NR NR NR 24 Little Millennium, Wanowrie 144 53 49 61 64 56 89 66 54 51 687

It’s great that we have been and capability. This flexible, child-
re-voted Pune’s #1 franchised centred, inclusive teaching philoso-
“preschool. We believe in phy develops youngest children’s
providing a child-centred, inno- creativity, critical thinking, and
vative curriculum and inclusive socio-emotional skills. I am pleased
teaching practices and pedagogies that your sample respondents
that focus on nurturing children’s have acknowledged these efforts
all-round development. For this we and rated us #1 under the param-
also actively encourage parental eters of curriculum and pedagogy,
involvement through workshops teacher welfare and development
and volunteer opportunities. and special needs education. We
Whether it’s through individualised instruction, adaptive plan to enrich our curriculum with ‘Herueka: The Visible
learning materials, and collaborative support of parents Thinking’ based on Harvard University’s Zero Project” —
and specialists, our teachers are trained to adapt the cur- Geeta Bharadwaj, Director, EuroKids, Ashok Nagar
riculum and pedagogy to suit every child’s learning style (students 103, teachers 11)

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