India’s top-ranked Girls Day Schools

With a large number of conservative households still preferring to send girl children to all-girls schools for religious and cultural reasons, the 2018-19 girls day schools league table is lengthier than all-boys day schools Except at the very top of the 2018-19 national league table of sufficiently well-reputed all-girls day schools where J.B. Petit High School for Girls, Mumbai has consolidated its position as India’s #1 all-girls day school, there’s been a major rearranging of seating at the Top 10 table. Rajmata Krishna Kumari Girls Public School, Jodhpur has been promoted to #2 (#3 in 2017) as has La Martiniere for Girls, Kolkata to #3 (4), Modern High School for Girls, Kolkata to #4 (6), NASR School, Khairatabad, Hyderabad to #5 (6) and Villa Theresa High School, Mumbai to #7 (9). Among girls day schools which have lost ground are Loreto House, Middleton, Kolkata, which has slipped to #6 (5), Maharani Gayatri Devi Girls Public School, Jaipur to #7 (4), St. Mary’s School, Pune to #8 (7) and Sacred Heart Sr. Sec. School, Chandigarh to #9 (8). Benaifer P. Kutar, principal of the CISCE-affiliated J.B. Petit High School for Girls in downtown South Bombay, is delighted that the vintage school (estb.1860) is ranked #1 for the second consecutive year and top-ranked under the critical parameters of academic reputation, faculty competence and leadership/management quality. “Our #1 overall ranking and highest scores under the parameters of faculty competence and leadership is the outcome of adhering to our core principles — liberality, creativity, free expression and service. In 2016 with the objective of preparing for the future, the school unveiled the JB Building Excellence redevelopment project to expand and modernise the campus and add an International Baccalaureate section. This modern facility will effectively complement the existing historic campus, and benefit our school community for generations to come,” says Kutar, an alumna of SNDT University, Mumbai who signed up as teacher in 1995 and was appointed principal of the school in 2010. Currently J.B. Petit has an enrolment of 923 students mentored by 80 teachers. Mir Mohiuddin Mohammed, principal of the CISCE-affiliated Nasr School, Khairatabad, Hyderabad, is also “very happy” that this all-girls institution promoted by Begum Anees Khan in 1965 has been consistently moving up the all-girls day schools league table. From #8 in 2016 to #6 in 2017 and into the Top 5 in 2018-19, Nasr Girls — the alma mater of international tennis star Sania Mirza and unsurprisingly ranked #1 under the parameter of sports education — has steadily risen in the esteem of the informed public. Moreover its affiliated Nasr Boys, Hyderabad is also highly ranked (#7) in the boys day schools league table. “I am very happy that Nasr School is living up to the ideals of our founder principal, Begum Anees Khan. We regard our entry into the national Top 5 as a pat on the back for our dedicated efforts to provide open-minded enjoyable education to our girls through well-researched pedagogies and parent-teacher cooperation. I am especially…