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Cover Story EW INTERNATIONAL DAY-CUM-BOARDING SCHOOLS RANKINGS 2024-25

INDIA’S MOST ADMIRED INTERNATIONAL

DAY-CUM-BOARDING SCHOOLS

Sprawled across capital-intensive campuses on the bested rival IIS-B by a comfortable
peripheries of populous metros and rising cities, offering margin with highest scores under the
superb academic and sports facilities, day-cum-boarding critical parameters of faculty com-
petence (given double weightage),
schools affiliated with offshore exam boards are becoming teacher welfare and development,
popular within the country’s fast multiplying upscale academic reputation, curriculum and
households pedagogy and leadership/manage-
ment quality.
Dr. K.P. Gopalkrishna, the
legendary promoter-chairman of the
top-ranked National Public School
(NPS) group of institutions and
TISB, is delighted that the garden
city’s pioneer international school
“has got its due”.
“We are happy with this overdue
recognition, especially top scores
awarded to us on the critical param-
eters of faculty competence, teacher
welfare and development and aca-
demic reputation. Our teachers are
our prize assets rigorously trained
in our TISB Training Academy and
provided excellent annual remu-
neration starting at Rs.1.5 lakh per
month and rising to over Rs.12 lakh
plus residential accommodation on
our 140-acre campus. Our high score
TISB students: overdue recognition. Inset: Dr. K.P. Gopalkrishna for academic reputation is entirely
deserved. Fifteen TISB students
nternational day-cum-boarding nuclear households. secured the maximum 45 average
schools are sui generis. Affili- The 2024-25 league table of score in the IB diploma programme
ated with offshore exam boards India’s best international day-cum- with the graduating batch of 2024
Isuch as Cambridge International boarding schools has undergone awarded scholarships valued at
(UK), International Baccalaureate seismic change. The 12-year reign $14.5 million by globally top-ranked
(Geneva) and Advanced Placement of Indus International School, universities. I am also very pleased
(USA), they sprawl across capital- Bangalore (IIS-B, estb.2003) as the with our highest score under the
intensive campuses on the outskirts country’s #1 international day-cum- mental and emotional well-being ser-
of India’s populous metros and big boarding has ended. vices parameter. It is proof that our
cities offering superb academic and This time round the 8,700 par- well-trained and competent teach-
sports facilities, well-furbished stu- ents, principals, teachers and educa- ers are providing a happy learning
dent housing, and globally bench- tors interviewed by our new field experience to our students. Moreover
marked pedagogies delivered by survey agency AZ Research Partners, TISB’s high score under curriculum
highly trained teachers. And because have voted the perpetual bridesmaid and pedagogy is because we also ac-
they offer children day and boarding — The International School, cord full importance to co-curricular
options, day-cum-boarding schools Bangalore (TISB, estb.2000) — subjects such as public speaking,
are becoming popular within the India #1. Runner-up for the past leadership and entrepreneurship,”
country’s fast-multiplying upscale three years (2021-23), TISB has says Gopalkrishna, who modestly

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