EducationWorld India’s best boys day schools 2022-23

With the overwhelming majority of new day schools being mixed gender, the boys-only league table has been shrinking every year. This year with legacy vintage boys schools ranked separately, the number has reduced to 26

                                          St. John High’s school principal Kavita Das

The 2022-23 national league table of India’s best boys day schools sports a new look after introduction of a separate vintage schools (aged 90 years-plus) category this year. With the overwhelming majority of new K-12 education institutions promoted in the new millennium being mixed-gender schools, even the hitherto undivided boys-only league table had shrunk to a mere 53 primary-secondaries.

This year with the league table divided to carve out a new category of vintage schools, the boys-only day schools league table has been reduced to 26. Yet while co-ed day schools dominate the K-12 education landscape and constitute the lengthiest league table in EWISR 2022-23, it bears repetition that the country’s shrinking minority of gender-segregated schools enjoy king-size national reputations and often outperform coed day schools in higher-secondary board exams.

This year St. John’s High School, Chandigarh (SJHS, estb.1959) ranked #3 in 2021-22 and #1 in 2020-21 has recovered its numero uno rank. The 14,221 sample respondents — parents, principals, teachers and senior students — interviewed by the Delhi-based Centre for Forecasting & Research (C fore), have voted SJHS India #1, with top scores on eight of 14 parameters of primary secondary education excellence, viz, faculty competence, teacher welfare and development, infrastructure, leadership, community service, special needs education, mental and emotional well-being services and value for money. Promoted 63 years ago by the Congregation of Christian Brothers on a 30-acre campus in the heart of Chandigarh, the CBSE-affiliated St. John’s High has 2,100 students mentored by 80 teachers on its musters.