India’s best girls boarding schools 2023-24

Educating girl children should be a high national priority. And the country’s girls boarding schools do it best. It’s pertinent to note that the total score awarded to top-ranked girls’ boarding schools in EWISR 2023-24 is higher than of top-ranked boys and co-ed boarding schools Although the globally multiplying woke brigade is unlikely to approve of gender segregated girls schools, in multi-lingual and multi-cultural India which prides itself on ‘unity in diversity’, all-girls schools serve a very useful social purpose. They enable girl children who would otherwise be denied primary-secondary education for socio-cultural or religious reasons, to avail it. Girls boarding schools play a specially important role inasmuch as they transform girl children from conservative or ultra-liberal home environments and provide them secular high quality education supplemented with excellent co-curricular, life skills and sports education that empowers them to blossom into competitive, confident career professionals and often, entrepreneurs. This is why right from the start when the sui generis EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR) were introduced in 2007, gender segregated girls day and especially boarding schools have been accorded high importance in the annual EWISR. According to the Periodic Labour Force Survey, India’s female labour participation ratio (FLPR) in the workforce at 29.4 percent is way below the global average, and suffers in comparison with most Asian countries such as China and Singapore. This is one of the major reasons why the Indian economy has failed to record annual GDP growth rates achieved by neighbouring People’s Republic of China and most South-east Asian countries. Therefore educating girl children should be a high national priority. And the country’s top girls boarding schools equipped with excellent academic, co-curricular activities and sports infrastructure, do it best. It’s pertinent to note that the total score awarded to top-ranked girls’ boarding schools in EWISR 2023-24 is substantially higher than of top-ranked boys and co-ed boarding schools. Against this promising backdrop, there are very minor changes at the top of the girls boarding schools league table of 2023-34. Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya, Gwalior, which experienced a major infra makeover last year, retains its #1 rank and although it is obliged to share it with Welham Girls, Dehradun, it has been awarded a #1+ rank for extraordinary achievement in the year past which puts it a nose ahead. Other girls boarding schools in the Top 5 table are Ecole Globale International, Dehradun promoted to #2 (from #3 in 2022-23); Mayo College for Girls, Ajmer #3 (3) jointly with Unison Girls, Dehradun (7); Birla Balika Vidyapeeth, Pilani #4 (5) jointly with Hopetown Girls, Dehradun (4) and Vidyadevi Jindal School, Hisar #5 (6). Further down, the Heritage Girls School, Udaipur ranked #6 (8); Doon Girls, Dehradun #7 (10); Mody School, Lakshmangarh, Rajasthan #8 (9); Vantage Hall Girls, Dehradun #9 (8) and Shah Satnamji Girls, Sirsa, Haryana #10 (14) complete the Top 10. Nishi Misra, the articulate principal of Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya, Gwalior (SKVG, estb.1956 by the late Rajmata of Gwalior), which has been awarded 1+ rating for the comprehensive makeover…