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Cover Story EW BOYS DAY SCHOOLS RANKINGS 2020-21

INDIA’S BEST BOYS DAY SCHOOLS campus in the heart of Chandigarh,

SJHS is #1 this year with top scores on
the parameters of faculty competence,
infrastructure provision, leadership/
management quality and value for
money (tuition fee: Rs.3,000-4,000
per month). “We are thrilled by this
good news during these sad pandemic
times. For several years, our dedicat-
ed teachers have been working hard
to improve under all EWISR param-
eters of school education excellence.
As indicated by our top score under
the parameter of teacher welfare and
development, we value our teachers
very highly. Though we have suffered
loss of revenue due to the pandemic
induced closure of all schools, we have
continued to pay full salaries to all our
teachers besides providing them con-
tinuous professional training to be-
come familiar with new online learn-
ing technologies. Therefore, we are
happy that SJHS has been awarded
SJHS principal Kavita Das: good news in pandemic times excellent scores under the parameters
of faculty competence, co-curricular
The seven-year reign of Campion School, Mumbai in the education and value for money,” says
all-boys category has ended. This year the 11,368 sample Kavita Das, an alumna of Delhi Uni-
versity with over 20 years of teaching
respondents have voted St. John’s High School, Chandigarh experience (St. Columba’s, Delhi) who
#1 by a three points margin was appointed principal of St. John’s
High in 2007. Currently, the school
has an aggregate enrolment of 2,000
ne of the few success stories mindset that new greenfield schools of boys mentored by 100 teachers.
of post-independence India all categories tend to be co-education- In this year’s league table of In-
is gender egalitarianism al institutions which promote gender dia’s Top 5 boys day schools, Cam-
O— at least within the 200 egalitarianism and respect. pion School at #2 is followed by
million-strong great Indian middle Against this backdrop, the seven- The Bishop’s School, Pune which
class. Although gender parity is not year reign of Campion School, has risen high in public esteem to #3
yet normative in Indian society, except Mumbai (estb.1943) in the category (#6 in 2019-20). It is jointly ranked
perhaps in the top 5 percent of upper of all-boys day schools has ended. #3 with St. Mary’s School, Mazg-
middle class homes, there’s rising This year, the 11,368 sample respon- aon, Mumbai (4) which has traded
awareness within the population of dents comprising parents, teachers, places with St. Xavier’s Collegiate
the need to provide equal pre-primary principals and senior students of the School, Kolkata at #4 (5). La Mar-
and K-12 education to girl children. EducationWorld India School Rank- tiniere for Boys, Kolkata at #5 (6)
Therefore, gender segregated — all- ings 2020-21, have voted St. John’s has also been promoted. Yet the big-
boys and all-girls – primary-second- High School, Chandigarh (SJHS, gest winner in the boys day category is
aries are a dying species, especially estb.1959) #1 by a three points mar- the vintage St. Joseph’s Boys High
single sex day schools. Consequently, gin. It’s pertinent to note that Campi- School, Bengaluru (estb.1858)
the number of sufficiently well-reput- on’s dislodgement from its normative which has leapfrogged from #11 in
ed gender segregated schools (schools top of table coincides with the retire- 2019-20 to #5 this year besting its tra-
unknown to less than 25 sample re- ment of its long-serving (2013-19) and ditional rival Bishop Cotton Boys,
spondents are not ranked) is dimin- high-profile principal Paul Machado. Bengaluru which is #6, after a long
ishing with every passing year. It’s a Promoted in 1959 by the Congrega- time.
sign of an increasingly progressive tion of Christian Brothers on a 30-acre “I am very happy with St. Mary’s,

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