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Cover Story EW INTERNATIONAL DAY SCHOOLS RANKINGS 2020-21

INDIA’S TOP-RANKED INTERNATIONAL DAY SCHOOLS

For upper class households that prefer their children to grow up sub-category. This year again for the
at home and then move to residential colleges and universities, eighth year in succession, the 11,368
a new genre of international day schools, which offer academic sample respondents of EWISR 2020-
education on a par with the very best boarding schools, has 21 comprising parents, principals,
mushroomed in post-liberalisation India teachers and educationists have
voted DAIS India’s #1 international
day school with top scores on eight
of the 14 parameters of K-12 educa-
tion excellence, including teacher
competence, academic reputation,
co-curricular and special needs
education.
Founded in 2003 to commemo-
rate the memory of legendary busi-
ness leader Dhirubhai Ambani
(1932-2002), founder-chairman
of Reliance Industries Ltd, India’s
most valuable company by market
capitalisation (Rs.16 lakh crore), the
Cambridge and IB-affiliated DAIS,
sited within Mumbai’s ultra-modern
Bandra-Kurla Complex business dis-
trict, provides best global standard
academic, sports, and co-curricular
education to 1,093 students men-
tored by 154 teachers.
“We are thrilled that this year’s
DAIS’ Nita Ambani: encouraging endorsement sample respondents have again
ranked DAIS India’s #1 interna-
nlike haute bourgeoisie International (UK), provide progeny tional school. The endorsement of
households in the UK and of the upper middle and elite classes our work by EducationWorld is very
increasingly in the US high-quality multidisciplinary K-12 encouraging; it shows that DAIS is
Uthat prefer to send their education benchmarked with the lat- on the right path towards nurturing
offspring to top-ranked boarding est innovations in the West, at rela- our children’s all-round develop-
schools asap, upper class households tively affordable prices compared to ment. Our competent and committed
in India prefer their children to grow international day-cum-boarding and teachers are the pillars on which the
up at home and then move to resi- fully residential schools. This year, school has been developed over the
dential colleges and universities. To the EW International Day Schools past 18 years to excel academically
cater to this demand of the country’s Rankings 2020-21 league table rates as also in sports and co-curricular
rapidly multiplying high net worth and ranks 114 schools in 32 cities accomplishments at national and
families, a new genre of internation- countrywide (cf. 89 schools, 25 cities international levels, and by way
al day schools that offer academic in 2019-20). of placements in the world’s top
education on a par with the very best Ab initio since 2013 when the universities. They have quickly and
boarding schools, has mushroomed umbrella category of international brilliantly adapted to the digital
in post-liberalisation India. schools was sub-divided into day, medium providing children engag-
In our crowded metros, state day-cum-boarding and wholly ing online classes during the past six
capitals and latterly tier III-IV cities, residential schools to avoid apples months of the pandemic shut-down.
international day schools affiliated and oranges type comparisons, the Credit must also accrue to my daugh-
with globally reputed offshore exam Dhirubhai Ambani Internation- ter Isha Ambani Piramal, who
boards such as International Bac- al School, Mumbai (DAIS) has has been leading the school’s digital
calaureate (Geneva) and Cambridge dominated this highly competitive transformation initiatives during this

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