Delhi’s most admired preschools 2015

The annual winter stampede for admissions into Delhi’s most admired pre-primaries is the most frantic and brutal nationwide in the year 2015, with parents ready and willing to brave near zero temperatures for obtaining admission forms to the premier preschools  No city, town or community nationwide is more aware of the vital importance of professionally administered early childhood care and education than Delhi (pop.18.25 million), a sprawling megalopolis which has not only been awarded the status of a state of the Indian Union but whose reach under the name and style of Delhi NCR (National Capital Region) stretches across two other states — Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. The annual winter stampede for admissions into the city-state’s most admired pre-primaries is the most frantic and brutal nationwide with overnight queues — quite common and ubiquitous — formed by parents ready and willing to brave near-zero night temperatures to obtain the all-important admission forms for their infants. This annual and under-reported phenomenon is unsurprising because admission into the national capital’s top-ranked pre-primaries — especially pre-primaries of the city’s most reputed K-12 schools — is the passport for entry into Delhi’s much-too-few premier schools, which eliminates the subsequent scramble for admissions into them for the next 12 years. Little wonder the mad annual rush for preschool admissions in the Delhi imperium. Against this backdrop, field researchers of the highly-reputed Delhi-based market research and opinion polls company C fore interviewed a select sample of 602 parents with children in preschool, principals and teachers in Delhi, and persuaded them to rate and rank 13 owned/proprietary, 29 franchised and 13 preschools attached to larger K-10/12 schools separately in these three categories. Owned/proprietary preschools For the past six years since this publication began rating and ranking the country’s best pre-primaries in the public interest, The Magic Years (TMY), the national capital’s pioneer preschool, has been voted Delhi’s #1. Therefore there was a certain inevitability that under the new taxonomy, which ranked owned/proprietary nurseries separately, TMY would retain its pre-eminent position. True to expectation, TMY is ranked Delhi’s #1 owned/proprietary preschool and first in six out of the 10 parameters which denote pre-primary education excellence. However, it’s pertinent to note that a mere one point separates it from the national capital’s Step by Step, Panchsheel which is rated #1 on the parameters of teacher welfare and development, parental involvement, infrastructure and special needs education. Little Pearls, Vasant Vihar which has retained its #3 rank, The Ardee Montessori, Sujan Singh Park (#4) and Aadyant, Vasant Kunj make up the Top 5 table this year. “The EducationWorld annual rankings based on a wide set of parameters, impact the importance of early childhood care and education upon the community and prompt improvement across the board. We enjoy the rewards of recognition by media, the educational community, parents and mostly from children who inspire us to give our best every day. At TMY we are responsive to our children’s social and emotional needs and help them develop into independent, well-balanced individuals. To…