India’s Best Day-cum-Boarding Schools 2018-19

A notable feature of India’s best day-cum-boarding schools 2018-19 national league table is that seven DPS schools promoted/franchised by the Delhi Public Schools Society (estb. 1937) are seated at the Top 10 table 2017-18 was a year of churn for the 70-plus institutions listed in the EducationWorld league table of India’s most admired co-ed day-cum-boarding schools which are multiplying at a fast clip as upwardly mobile, clued-up parents in tier-I and tier-III cities send their children to the metros where schools tend to have better teachers and offshore exam board (IB, CAIE etc) affiliation. Comparatively, 2018-19 is a year of consolidation with the vintage Delhi-based DPS (Delhi Public School), R.K. Puram (DPSRK, estb. 1972) and Modern School, Barakhamba Rd, Delhi (1920) retaining their #1 and #2 ranking. This year’s sample respondents have demoted Greenwood High Bangalore (estb.2004) ranked #1 last year, to #3. Nevertheless, there is a rearrangement of the pecking order at the Top 5 table with Emerald Heights International School, Indore (estb. 1982), ranked #4 in 2017-18, promoted to #2 (jointly with Modern School, Barakhamba Rd) this year. Moreover, Sai International, Bhubaneswar, ranked #4 last year, has been promoted to #3 interchanging places with Sanskaar Valley, Bhopal. DPS, Vasant Kunj, ranked #5 (6 last year) completes the 2018-19 Top 5 table. A notable feature of this year’s co-ed day-cum-boarding national league table is that seven DPS schools promoted or franchised by the Delhi Public Schools Society (estb. 1937) chain of 222 schools in India and abroad are seated at the Top 10 table. “The annual EducationWorld Top 1,000 schools survey serves a very useful public purpose. The 14 paremeters under which schools are rated and ranked are good yardsticks for us to measure our progress in all aspects of school management, and they keep the spirit of inter-school competition alive. Winning such accolades makes the entire school feel good and we are privileged that DPS-RKP is ranked India’s #1 co-ed day-cum-boarding school for the second year consecutively. This top ranking reassures us that we are going in the right direction. I’m also very pleased that DPS-RKP is rated and ranked #1 on five of the 14 parameters of school education excellence including teacher welfare & development, faculty competence, academic reputation and community service. It’s proof that we are providing a holistic education experience to our students,” says Vanita Sehgal, an alumna of Delhi University who signed up with DPS-RKP as a teacher in 1984 and was appointed principal of this highly regarded CBSE-affiliated class VI-XII school set within a 12-acre campus in the heart of the national capital, in 2016. Currently, DPS-RKP has 7,245 students mentored by 401 teachers on its muster rolls. Siddharth Singh, director and principal of the Emerald Heights International School, Indore (EHIS, estb. 1982) which has been steadily rising in the public esteem since 2015 when it was ranked #7 in this category, is delighted that EHIS has been promoted from#4 last year to runner-up in EWISR 2018-19. “It feels great to see that…