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Cover Story EW INTERNATIONAL DAY-CUM-BOARDING SCHOOLS RANKINGS 2020-21

INDIA’S MOST RESPECTED INTERNATIONAL

DAY-CUM-BOARDING SCHOOLS

with 1,200 students, 145 teachers and
a teacher training academy on its cam-
pus, has been topping the international
day-cum-boarding league table with
monotonous regularity.
This year as well for the ninth con-
secutive year, sample respondents
comprising 11,368 parents, educa-
tionists, principals and teachers have
voted IIS-B India’s #1 international
day-cum-boarding school with top
scores under the parameters of cur-
riculum and pedagogy (including
digital readiness), teacher welfare and
development, leadership/manage-
ment quality and community service
across all categories of international
schools. It’s also pertinent to note that
the domination of this league table is
not limited to IIS-B. Two affiliated
IIS-B’s Rao (left) & Gen. Arjun Ray: continuous innovation acknowledgement Indus International Schools in Pune
and Hyderabad promoted by the Ben-
Apart from high-quality globally benchmarked academic galuru-based Indus Trust (estb.2001)
are also ranked among the Top 10.
education, international day-cum-boarding schools provide IIS-Hyderabad is ranked #6 (cf. #9
day scholars access to excellent co-curricular and sports in 2019-20) while IIS-Pune has re-
education infrastructure that residential schools build for tained its #8 rank of last year.
“We are always thrilled when IIS-
boarders. Therefore they are becoming increasingly popular B is ranked India’s #1 international
day-cum-boarding school. It’s public
ithin the upscale, elite coming increasingly popular with the acknowledgement of the continuous
category of inter- growing number of households where efforts of our management and fac-
national schools af- both parents are gainfully employed. ulty to innovate and improve across
Wfiliated with offshore In this category of international all parameters of school education
school-leaving examination boards, schools, the Indus Internation- excellence. This year, I am especially
day-cum-boarding schools offer stu- al School, Bengaluru (IIS-B, delighted that we are ranked #1 on the
dents the best of both worlds. Apart estb.2003), spread across a 28-acre newly introduced parameter of curric-
from high-quality globally bench- campus in the IT hub of Whitefield ulum and pedagogy (digital readiness)
marked academic education, they also with excellent co-curricular and sports as the school’s management, teachers,
provide day scholars access to excel- facilities and IB (Geneva) affiliation, and students with the full cooperation
lent co-curricular and sports education has seemingly attained the perfect mix. of our parents, pulled out all stops to
infrastructure that residential schools It not only hosts students from over 30 ensure children’s learning continued
build for boarders. Moreover, they countries around the world but also online during these challenging pan-
tend to offer weekly board and lodg- weekly boarders from the hi-tech city demic times, which forced closure of all
ing options that permit students to of Bengaluru (aka Bangalore) in which education institutions countrywide. We
spend weekends with parents and/or households with both parents working designed new curriculums and digital
relatives. Therefore, international (co- full-time is normative. Therefore for al- pedagogies to meet this unprecedented
ed) day-cum-boarding schools are be- most a decade, this K-12 fully IB school challenge and are pleased to report that

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