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Cover Story EW CO-ED DAY-CUM-BOARDING SCHOOLS RANKINGS 2022-23

INDIA’S BEST DAY-CUM-BOARDING SCHOOLS

Day-cum-boarding schools are highly valued because they boarding schools are also becoming
offer parents and children the advantages of living at home attractive because poor urban
planning and massive road traffic jams
plus access to superior infrastructure that boarding schools in cities which involve long commutes
invariably provide. Little wonder their number is rising for day scholars, is prompting parents
every year to opt for the boarding school option.
To accommodate local communities,
most day-cum-boarding schools
provide weekly boarding and extended
day schooling options. Hence their
rising popularity and rising number.
Another useful social purpose
that the rapidly multiplying number
of upscale, well-furbished co-ed
day-cum-boarding schools serve is
they disburse high-quality, globally
benchmarked education in non-
metropolitan cities across the
country. With real estate prices in the
country’s major metros having risen
sky-high, room for expansion and
introduction of boarding facilities and
infrastructure is limited.
Therefore for the past few years,
the annual EWISR league table of
the country’s most admired day-
cum-boarding schools has been
dominated by schools sited in non-
metro cities such as Bengaluru,
EHIS’ Siddharth Singh: founders dream fulfillment Indore, Bhubaneswar, Bhopal,
Jaipur and Hyderabad. Enlightened
n the pioneer annual of professionally administered pasto- promoters of top-ranked day-cum-
EducationWorld India School ral care in addition to 24x7 access to boarding schools in non-metros have
Rankings (EWISR) league tables, a wide range of co-curricular activi- also served the progressive cause of
Iday-cum-boarding schools — ties and sports and games facilities. gender egalitarianism by providing
whether affiliated with indigenous Moreover, day-cum-boarding schools equal education for girl children
examination boards or international also offer the advantage of greater in an economy in which female
boards such as IB (Geneva/Hague) students and teacher diversity as they participation in the labour force is
or Cambridge International (UK) — attract city-based day scholars as well declining dangerously.
occupy a special place. They are highly as boarders from across the country, Against this backdrop, superbly
valued because they offer parents/ and in many instances from overseas. equipped, globally benchmarked pri-
students all the advantages of day and In the circumstances, it’s mary-secondaries with lebensraum
well-equipped boarding schools. unsurprising that the number of day- sited in tier II-III cities continue to
The advantages of living at home cum-boarding schools — especially dominate the EWISR 2022-23 co-
and receiving parental support plus in the private education sector — ed day-cum-boarding schools league
access to superior infrastructure, es- countrywide is rising exponentially table.
pecially in terms of co-curricular and every year. Against 162 day-cum- At the very top, there’s a minor
sports and games facilities that board- boarding primary-secondaries ranked change in the seating arrangement
ing schools invariably provide, are in the 2021-22 league table, the with Emerald Heights Interna-
available to day scholars. Simultane- number has risen to 171. In addition tional School, Indore (EHIS,
ously, boarders enjoy the advantages to the factors cited above, day-cum- estb.1984) ranked #2 last year pro-

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