India’s top ranked girls boarding school 2015

Since 2013, the national girls’ legacy boarding schools league table has been dominated by Welham Girls and Mayo College Girls. But in EWISR 2015 this duopoly has been broken. Although single sex schools are going out of fashion around the world, in India endowed with a multiplicity of religious, caste and cultural minorities, they continue to attract children from conservative households across the country. Not a few parents with traditional mindsets for reasons of their own prefer to send boys, and especially girl children, to single sex schools. Indeed, it can be safely asserted that but for the substantial number of all-girls residential schools, a large number of girl children would be denied the special experience boarding schools offer. After the EW league tables were rationalised and the country’s most reputed schools were divided into 14 separate categories in 2013 to eliminate apples and oranges type of comparisons, the national girls legacy boarding schools league table has been dominated by the Welham Girl School, Dehradun and Mayo College Girls, Ajmer (Rajasthan) in that order. It’s very encouraging and heartening to learn that Welham Girls has retained its position as the country’s top-ranked girls boarding school for the third year. I believe the credit should be given to our proven education traditions and excellent team of teachers. We have bright students who are eager to learn, and have an underlying philosophy that each child deserves the best pastoral care and best learning opportunities in every minute of her stay here. We also have a robust teacher development programme as reflected in your parameter rankings. In Welham Girls, we believe every student has multiple intelligences. Our aim is to try and identify their special intelligences and aptitudes and develop them to the fullest extent, says Jyotsna Brar, an English and education graduate of Panjab University who was appointed principal of the school in the millennium year (2000) and has played a major role in transforming this legacy (estb. 1957) girls boarding school into a world-class primary-secondary. Ranked #1 on ten of the 14 parameters of education excellence (including leadership and management quality), it has 550 students mentored by 65 teachers on its muster rolls. However, this year the Welham-Mayo duopoly has been broken with the hitherto low-profile Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya, Gwalior (SKV, estb.1956) promoted to #2 by the 4,259 sample respondents in north India. Rated #1 on the parameter of life skills and conflict management in this category, and second on several others including leadership, and safety and hygiene, SKV which was ranked a modest #21 in 2012 has risen spectacularly in the public esteem during the past three years to be ranked second this year. The Top 5 table is completed by Mayo College Girls, Ajmer tied at #3 with the nexgen superbly-equipped Unison World School, Dehradun (rated #1 on the parameters of infrastructure, and safety and hygiene), Vidya Devi Jindal, Hisar (Haryana) and the Ecole Globale International Girls School, Dehradun. I want to warmly thank your informed sample respondents for…