India’s best girls day schools 2021-22

With many conservative households still preferring gender segregated education institutions for cultural and religious reasons, all-girls’ day schools are flourishing countrywide with many of them having built big size reputations Even though all-girls schools are going out of fashion around the world, in India they continue to remain relevant and serve an important public purpose. With many traditional households still preferring gender segregated education institutions for cultural and religious reasons, all-girls’ day schools are flourishing countrywide with many of them having built big size reputations for dispensing high-quality academic and co-curricular education. During the Covid-19 pandemic-prompted closure of all schools since March 2020, managements and teachers of India’s most reputed girls schools have pulled out all stops to ensure the learning continuity of students through online media. In the EW India School Rankings 2021-22, the 11,458 respondents interviewed by the Delhi-based Centre for Forecasting & Research (C fore) have awarded girls day schools high scores under the newly introduced parameters of online education effectiveness and mental and emotional well-being services. Topping this year’s league table of India’s best girls’ day schools with high scores under new as well as conventional parameters of K-12 education excellence such as academic reputation, the competence of teachers, and co-curricular education, is the vintage JB Petit High School for Girls, Mumbai (JBPHS, estb.1865). This CISCE-affiliated K-10 school ranked #1 for three consecutive years in the annual EWISR from 2017-2019, has reclaimed its premier position as India’s #1 all-girls day school in 2021- 22. Also read: JB Petit High School for Girls, Mumbai “Though JB Petit has never focused on rankings, it’s gratifying to learn that your well-informed survey respondents are aware of the huge effort our teachers have made to maintain our children’s learning continuity. Our teachers readily switched to online platforms and learnt new technological tools almost overnight. Our parents patiently made all required home-schooling adjustments, while our students showed us once again the power of adaptability and resilience that the country’s youth possess. Our #1 overall rank and top scores for parental involvement, academic reputation, online education, among others is testimony to the support and trust that our teachers, students and parents repose in the school,” says Benaifer P. Kutar, principal of JBPHS, which has 904 girl children mentored by 65 teachers on its musters. The school has reopened in-person classes for class IX students with class VIII and class X opening later in November. This year, the #2 position has been awarded to the Sacred Heart Sr. Secondary School, Chandigarh (SHSS, estb: 1968) which has leap-frogged from #7 and is jointly ranked second with La Martiniere for Girls, Kolkata. Ranked #3 is the Carmel Convent School, Chandigarh (#1 in 2020-21) followed by Loreto House, Middleton, Kolkata at #4 (5) jointly ranked with Rajmata Krishna Kumari Girls’ Public School, Jodhpur (3) and Modern High School for Girls, Kolkata at #5 (3) — all of whom have yielded ground this year. Sr. Arti, principal of the CBSE-affiliated SHSS, Chandigarh, is delighted with SHSSS’ India…