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Cover Story EW VINTAGE LEGACY BOYS BOARDING SCHOOLS RANKINGS 2024-25

Vintage legacy boys boarding schools national league table

Rank Teacher welfare & development (100) Competence of faculty (200) Academic reputation (100) Co-curricular education & internationalism (100) Sports education (100) Curriculum & pedagogy Individual attention to students (100) Leadership / management Safety & hygiene (100) Infrastructure provision Pastoral care (100) Mental & emotional well- being services (100) Quality of alu
2021 2022 2023 2024 (HOTS) (100) quality (100) (100)

4 3 2 1 Bishop Cotton School, Shimla 84 172 84 91 89 88 79 79 86 89 85 77 90 89 78 1360
2 1 1 2 Mayo College, Ajmer 88 155 90 82 90 78** 88 89 84 89 85 73 82 80 87 1340
7 4 3 3 St. George’s College, Mussoorie 80 161 83 87 83 78 85 87 84 88 81 75 83 82 76 1313
3 2 4 4 The Scindia School, Gwalior 87 180 83 87 84 74 76 78 77 81 75 76 79 80 73 1290
NR 7 6 5 St. Joseph’s College, Nainital 77 158 78 85 83 79 81 78 88 79 82 75 83 79 79 1284
8 5 5 6 St. Paul’s School, Darjeeling 78 149 80 86 83 68 75 82 85 80 82 79 81 89 76 1273
NR NR 8 7 Birla School, Pilani 80 164 79* 86 84 75 72 85 76 86 78 75 77 77 78 1272
12 6 6 8 St. Joseph’s School, North Point,
Darjeeling 88 163 75 84 84 80 72 82 74 83 75 79 76 77 79 1271
29 8 9 9 St. Hilda’s School (Boys),Ooty 82 150 77 74 83 77 76 87 87 87 77 75 82 80 75 1269
19 7 7 10 Goethals Memorial School, Kurseong 71 159 86 76 80 78 74 79 74 76 76 74 70 79 72 1224
20 9 10 11 Gurukul Kurukshetra 73 134 64* 70 66 65 71 68 74 73 69 67 74 67 71 1106
* Representative students of these schools wrote the Global Young Scholar Talent Search Test
** Representative students of these schools wrote the LogIQids Higher Order Thinking Test

We are thrilled that BCS is ranked India’s #1 legacy scores awarded to us under the teacher development and
boys boarding school by EducationWorld, a mar- faculty competence parameters. I am also pleased with
“ket leader institution. This is acknowledgement of our high scores on the co-curricular and sports education
the entire school community’s efforts to continuously parameters. Our students play nationally and interna-
improve under all parameters of K-12 education excel- tionally — our cricket team has the distinction of playing
lence. Last year, BCS became a Cambridge International, against Eton College, UK. Moreover, our top score for
UK-affiliated school, and now offers students the CISCE quality of alumni is very satisfying as our alumni are ac-
and Cambridge curriculums. Several of our teachers have tively involved with the school through student mentoring
undergone Cambridge training programmes positively programmes and scholarship grants” — Simon D. Weale
impacting classroom pedagogies and student learn- (centre right), Director, Bishop Cotton School, Shimla
ing outcomes. Therefore, I am delighted about the high (estb.1859, 410 students and 56 teachers)

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