EducationWorld India’s Top-Ranked Girls Day Schools 2024-25

In a still largely conservative and patriarchal society where gender discrimination is rife, for cultural, theological and safety reasons, a sizeable number of parents prefer to enrol their girl children in all-girls school. Even though the majority of newly promoted schools in the country are co-educational, the popularity of all-girls day schools has not discernibly diminished. In a still largely conservative and patriarchal society where gender discrimination is rife and sex crimes against girl children are on the rise, a sizeable number of parents prefer to enrol their girl children in all-girls schools for cultural, theological and safety reasons. Moreover, the country’s most respected girls’ day schools have built formidable reputations in their host cities for providing excellent academic results — they usually outperform boys/co-ed schools in school-leaving board exams — as well as rigorous co-curricular and sports education. Consequently, it’s not surprising that the broad category of all-girls day schools — sub-divided in 2022 to create a new category of vintage legacy schools (over 90 years of age) — comprises 114 institutions (cf. 54 boys schools) indicating continuous demand for gender-segregated education for girl children. In the latest EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR) 2024-25, the 8,700 sample respondents comprising parents, teachers, educationists and counsellors interviewed by the Bengaluru-based AZ Research Partners, have reaffirmed Rajmata Krishna Kumari Girls Public School, Jodhpur (RKKGPS) as India’s #1 all-girls day school for the second consecutive year. However below #1 position, they have reconfigured top table seating. Modern High School for Girls, Kolkata is promoted to #2 (#3 in 2023-24), Maharani Gayatri Devi Girls’ School, Jaipur to #3 (6), Uttam School for Girls, Ghaziabad to #4 (5). Carmel Convent School, Chandigarh has lost ground and is ranked #3 (1) jointly with Sacred Heart Sr. Sec School, Chandigarh (2) . Neera Singh, principal of the top-ranked RKKGPS (estb.1992), is “delighted and humbled” this 32-year-old school has retained its #1 ranking in a “competitive category”. “The management, staff and students of RKKGPS are thankful that our sustained effort to excel under all 14 EWISR parameters has been appreciated and rewarded by your survey respondents. It will motivate us to continue giving our best and nurture our girl students for leadership positions in society,” says Singh, an alumna of Rajasthan and SNDT, Mumbai universities with over 25 years of teaching experience in schools countrywide, appointed principal of RKKGPS in 2008. Singh is especially satisfied that the CBSE-affiliated RKKGPS, which has 1,760 girl children and 152 teachers on its muster rolls, is awarded highest scores on the critical parameters of faculty competence (given double weightage), curriculum and pedagogy, sports education, and community service. “RKKGPS has been chosen by CBSE as a pilot school for implementation of the National Education Policy 2020 and the National Curriculum Framework for School Education 2023, and our teachers are attending intensive training workshops to implement the curriculum and pedagogy reforms mandated in these documents. Therefore, I am not surprised that we have been awarded the highest scores for faculty competence and curriculum and…