With a large number of conservative households insistent upon gender-segregated education, high-ranked girls schools provide a window of opportunity for a large number of girl children to acquire quality K-12 education
Sacred Heart, Chandigarh’s Sr. Arti along with students
Tragic but true. Even in this 21st century day and age, there are not a few conservative households which insist on gender-segregated primarysecondary schools for girl children. Therefore, all-girls day schools serve an important social purpose. They provide girl children who would have been denied the opportunity to access high-quality K-12 education for cultural and religious reasons to access it. Therefore, in a society in which FPLF (female participation in labour force) has fallen to a dismal 20.3 percent, all-girls schools provide a window of opportunity for a large number of children.
This year despite a separate new category of vintage legacy girls schools (90 years and above vintage) having been carved out of the 2021-22 composite league table, the girls day schools league table is competitive and 61-strong (cf. 26 boys day schools).
In EWISR 2022-23, 14,221 sample respondents comprising parents, teachers, educators and senior students interviewed by the Delhi-based Centre for Forecasting & Research (C fore) have awarded top spot to Sacred Heart Sr Sec School, Chandigarh (SHSSS, estb.1968), ranked #9 in 2018-19, #7 in 2020-2021 and #2 in 2021-22. Moreover, they have awarded this CBSE-affiliated all-girls school highest score on five of the 14 parameters of education excellence, viz, competence of faculty, teacher welfare and development, individual attention to students, value for money, and community service.
We experienced joy, delight and gratitude to God as also the sin of pride on learning that SHSS is ranked India’s #1 girls day school. I credit this achievement to my teachers, children, parents and other stakeholders. They are the pillars of this institution, ever willing to collaborate and cooperate to help the school provide all-round education excellence. All the parameters — our excellent faculty, constant endeavour to provide individual attention to students and commitment to serve society — on which Sacred Heart has been top-ranked, have enabled us to deliver holistic education. This honour has motivated the entire SHSS team to re-double our efforts to develop competent, strong women of character with a sense of social responsibility.
-Sr. Arti, principal of SHSSS which has 2,900 students and 104 teachers on its muster rolls.
Ranked #2 in the truncated 61-strong 2022-23 league table of girls day schools is the Rajmata Krishna Kumari Girls Public School, Jodhpur (RKKGPS, estb.1992), promoted from #4 last year, followed by Modern High School for Girls, Kolkata at #3 (#5).
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