India’s Top International Day-cum-Boarding Schools 2017-18

Since the annual EW India School Rankings were divided into ten separate categories, India’s Top International Day-cum-Boarding Schools 2017-18 league table has been topped by the Indus International School, Bangalore  Sited on sprawling campuses offering state-of-the-art academic facilities, 5-star student accommodation, elaborate sports and co-curricular education facilities, the country’s small minority of hi-end international day-cum-boarding schools have burst upon the education scene in post-liberalisation India setting globally benchmarked standards for day and boarding school education. Affiliated with prestigious offshore exam boards such as CIE (UK), IB (Geneva) and the Advanced Placement (USA), they have enabled upper middle class parents to access international school education for their children at relatively (compared to private schools abroad) affordable prices. Since the annual EW India School Rankings were divided into ten separate categories to create level playing fields for comparison, the best international day-cum-boarding school league table has been topped by the Indus International School, Bangalore (IIS-B, estb.2003) with monotonous regularity. This year too, the 12,000-plus sample respondents comprising parents, educationists, principals and teachers have voted the IB and CIE-affiliated IIS-B India’s #1 international day-cum-boarding school. Promoted less than 15 years ago by the Bangalore-based Indus Trust, led by its brilliant strategist CEO Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Arjun Ray, AVSM, PVSM, IIS-B’s two affiliated Indus International schools in Pune and Hyderabad are also ranked #4 and #11 respectively in the 2017-18 league table. “We are very pleased that our efforts to offer world-class education are being recognised and appreciated by your well-informed sample respondents. Our continued success in the rankings is because we go beyond academics and prepare children for life, setting new benchmarks and standards every year. I am especially happy with our top rating on teacher development and parental involvement as we believe that teachers and parents are the most important stakeholders in student success. Right from the start we have focused intensively on teacher development with our teachers spending close to 60 days every year in training programmes,” says Sarojini Rao, an economics and education alumnus of Pune and Annamalai universities and principal of IIS-B which has an enrolment of 1,100 students and 145 teachers.  While there’s no change at the top, further down the Top 10 national table of India’s most respected international day-cum-boarding schools there’s been a rejig of the seating order. Two Bangalore schools — The International School Bangalore (TISB) and Greenwood High International (GHI) — have been promoted to #2 position. While TISB has risen a notch from #3 last year, the high-profile GHI has moved up spectacularly in public esteem from #10 in 2016-17 to #2 this year. The ascent of these two institutions has pushed Pathways World School, Aravali, Gurgaon — ranked #2 for the past four years — to #3, a rank it shares with the Genesis Global School (GGS), Noida (#5 in 2016-17). Pathways and GSS are ranked #1 in Delhi NCR. Promoted in 2009 by the Noida-based Wave Group, with a reported capital investment of Rs.265 crore, the CIE and IB-affiliated GGS has…