India’s Best Boys Day Schools 2018-19

With the great majority of latter day SEC ‘A’ households preferring to send children to co-ed institutions, India’s Best Boys Day Schools 2018-19 league table is dominated by missionary institutions promoted in an earlier era Dislodging Campion School, Mumbai from its position as India’s #1 boys day school will take some doing. Since 2013, when the composite day schools category of the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings was subdivided into co-ed day, day-cum-boarding, boys day and girls day sub-categories, Campion has been adjudged the #1 all-boys day school. This year again, the 2,198 sample respondents interviewed by Delhi-based market research company C fore in western India, have voted Campion School, promoted by Fr. Joseph Savall of the Jesuit Order in 1943, #1 and top-ranked it on seven parameters of K-12 education excellence including academic reputation, faculty competence, co-curricular education, leadership, internationalism, parental involvement and value for money. “We are humbled and honoured that we have been voted India’s #1 boys day school for the sixth consecutive year. Campion School believes in the holistic growth of every child and all-round education — academics, sports, technology, civic awareness, and the performing arts. This culture is reflected in Campion’s #1 ranking under the parameters of academic reputation and co-curricular education. I believe it’s our collective — teachers, parents and students — commitment to produce good citizens equipped with life skills and academic competence that has helped us consistently win national accolades and respect. As we celebrate our 75th anniversary this year we recommit ourselves to providing a nurturing learning environment to develop competent and compassionate students who will contribute to the progress of the nation,” says Paul Machado, a political science and education alum of Bangalore University who acquired valuable teaching and admin experience at St. Mary’s, Mt. Abu and St. Mary’s, Mazgaon (Mumbai) — all-boys schools — before taking charge as principal of Campion in 2003. Currently, this K-10 CISCE-affiliated school has 820 students mentored by 47 teachers, on its muster rolls. While it’s status quo at the top table with St. John’s High School, Chandigarh retaining its #2 ranking in 2018-19, further down the Top 10 league table of India’s best all-boys day schools there’s a shake-up. St. Mary’s, Mazgaon, Mumbai has inched up to #3 (#4 in 2017) even as St. Xavier’s Collegiate, Kolkata, ranked #4, The Bishop’s School, Pune, at #5, La Martiniere for Boys, Kolkata at #6, and Bishop Cotton Boys, Bangalore, at #7, have all experienced a minor re-arrangement of seating at the Top 10 table. The notable gainers in the 2018-19 survey are DAV Boys Senior Secondary School, Gopalapuram, Chennai which has moved up to #6 (8 in 2017), Nasr School, Hyderabad at #7 (9), St. Stanislaus High School, Mumbai at #8 (10) and Don Bosco High School, Matunga, Mumbai at #9 (10). The Top 10 table is completed by St. Joseph’s Boys High School, Bangalore at #9 (7) and St. Columba’s School, Delhi at #10 (8). Kavita Das, principal of the CBSE-affiliated St. John’s High,…