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Cover Story EW CO ED DAY SCHOOLS RANKINGS 2021 22

INDIA’S BEST CO-ED

DAY SCHOOLS

This year the co-ed day schools league table rates 1,928 Pradesh) states which grudgingly host
primary-secondaries — the largest of any category. It 60 percent of India’s 1.30 billion citi-
augurs well for better gender relations and greater social zens — is poor, and girl children and
women suffer gender discrimination
respect for girls and women in future and violence on a substantially greater
scale than in any other of the Indian
Union of 29 states and seven Union
territories.
Against this depressing backdrop,
it’s encouraging that four of the Top
5 most admired co-ed day schools ad
seriatim — H e ri t ag e X p e ri e n t i al
L e arn i n g Scho o l ( H X L S) , G u -
rug ram ; St e p - b y- St e p , N o i da;
V as an t V al l e y, De l hi ; T he Shri
n
R am Scho o l , V as a t V i har/
M o ul s ari and M o t he r’ s I n t e rn a -
t i o n al , De l hi are sited in Delhi NCR
(national capital region). The sole
Top 5 schools beyond Delhi NCR are
the K F I Scho o l , Adyar, C he n n ai
and C at he dral & J o hn C o n n o n ,
M um b ai jointly ranked #5.
Further down the Top 10 table,
there is greater geographical variety.
After the vintage Cathedral & John
HXLS’ director Manit Jain: magnificent pandemic response Connon (CJCS, estb.1860) which
has regained its #1 Maharashtra and
t is surely an indicator of social number of all-boys and all-girls gen- Mumbai position, the 2021-22 sample
progress and emancipation that der segregated schools — although respondents have ranked three Ban-
the largest league table in the they serve a useful purpose in con- galore/Bengaluru schools #6-9 —
y #6 (
I n v e n t ure Acade m
c
Iannual EducationWorld India servative societies and communities f. #3 in
School Rankings (EWISR) is of co-ed — is declining, and the country is cer- 2020-21) and #1 in Karnataka; T he
day schools. This year’s league table tain to be better off if co-ed day (and V al l e y Scho o l and M al l ya Adi t i
of co-ed day schools with sufficient- residential) schools multiply. I n t e rn at i o n al jointly #7 (4 & 5)
ly high public profile to be included It’s also all to the good that the followed by Sm t . Sul o chan ade v i
,
in the rankings survey (institutions co-ed day schools top table is domi- Si n g han i a T han e ( M um b ai ) at
ranked by less than 25 sample respon- nated by primary-secondaries sited #8. Three Hyderabad-based schools
dents are eliminated from the league in the Delhi NCR region, which has — C H I R E C I n t e rn at i o n al and
tables) aggregates 1,948, by far the a poor gender egalitarianism record G l e n dal e Acade m y jointly ranked
largest number in any category. and where crimes against women are #9 and #1 in Telangana/Hyderabad
H
V
This augurs well for better gender widely prevalent. Indeed it would be and i dyaran ya i g h Scho o l com-
relations and greater social respect fairly accurate to state without fear of plete the Top 10. Also ranked #10 is
for girls and women in future. If boys contradiction, that the gender egalitar- the i rm al B hat i a Scho o l , De l hi .
N
and girls fairly learn and study to- ian record of north India — especially “It was too much to expect from
gether from the early years, they are of the educationally and socio-eco- this year’s different sample respon-
likely to become more empathetic and nomically backward BIMARU (Bihar, dents to also rank HXLS #1 for the
mutually respectful of each other. The Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar third consecutive year. Therefore it’s a

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