The 11,660 sample respondents countrywide interviewed by C fore have once again voted Campion School, Mumbai India’s #1 all-boys day school followed by St. Xavier’s Collegiate, Kolkata, and St. John’s High, Chandigarh
The top 5 order in the EW India Boys Day Schools Rankings 2015 is a mirror image of last year’s national league table. The 11,660 sample respondents interviewed countrywide by C fore have once again voted Campion School, Mumbai India’s #1 all-boys day school. St. Xavier’s Collegiate, Kolkata (#2), St. John’s High, Chandigarh (#3), La Martiniere for Boys, Kolkata (#4) and DAV Boys Senior Secondary, Gopalapuram, Chennai (#5) complete the Top 5 table.
Paul Machado, principal of the CISCE-affiliated Campion School, Mumbai (estb. 1943), is delighted the school has retained its numero uno ranking. “I am very pleased Campion is perceived to be living up to the high standards we have set ourselves. Credit for sustained excellence should be given to the collective hard work, determination and perseverance of our teachers and students. In particular, our top ratings on the parameters of faculty competence, sports education, and leadership/management quality is public acknowledgement of the high calibre and capability of our teachers, coaches who train and mentor our athletes and sports teams, and the school management which is forward looking. Every stakeholder in Campion is determined to maintain our top ranking,” says Machado, alumnus of Bangalore University and former vice principal of St. Mary’s School, Mumbai, who has been principal of Campion since 2003.
Likewise, Kavita Das, principal of the CBSE-affiliated St. John’s High, Chandigarh, is “quite satisfied” with the school’s Top 3 ranking for the second successive year. Promoted in 1959 by the Congregation of Christian Brothers on a 30-acre campus in the heart of Chandigarh, St. John’s is top-rated on the parameters of faculty competence, life skills and conflict management education, infrastructure provision and value for money (tuition fee: Rs.32,000 per year).
“We live according to the precepts of the Christian Brothers to provide the best education that is affordable to all. For the past 17 years, much before the RTE Act was passed, we have been admitting and providing free education to children from economically weaker sections of society. Our priority is to offer values-based, holistic education to our children. I’m glad this is reflected in your league tables,” says Das, an alumna of Delhi University with over 20 years of teaching experience (St. Columba’s, Delhi) who was appointed principal of St. John’s High in 2007. Currently, the school has an enrolment of 2,067 boys.
While the Top 5 order is unchanged in the EW India Boys Day Schools Rankings 2015, there has been a major rejig further down the Top 10 table. The Bishop’s School, Pune, previously ranked #10 has risen to #6 while Loyola School, Thiruvananthapuram has advanced spectacularly to #7 this year (#27) and St. Columba’s School, Delhi to #9 (15). St. Mary’s, Mazgaon, Mumbai has held on to its #8 rank even as Don Bosco, Matunga, Mumbai (#10) has yielded some ground.
The dramatic rise in public esteem of Loyola School, Thiruvananthapuram (estb.1961), from #27 in 2014 to #7 this year, has provoked jubilation on its 7.5-acre campus hosting 1,756 students and 73 teachers. “I thank God, my colleagues and students for this success. The extraordinary team work of our teachers and students, and the management’s commitment to deliver modern education without diluting old world values is responsible for our improved ranking. We also appreciate the effort EducationWorld has taken to provide factual CISCE class XII results which has contributed to a rise in our overall ranking. Our school average of 93 percent in the ISC exam is the highest in the country with 46 of 53 students scoring over 90 percent,” says principal Fr. Devassy Paul SJ.
With a great majority of new K-12 schools promoted as co-ed institutions, the all-boys day schools league table of 42 schools is dominated by evangelist institutions promoted in an earlier era. They include Bishop Cotton Boys School, Bangalore (estb. 1865) at #11, Don Bosco, Kolkata (estb. 1958) at #12, St. Edwards, Shimla (estb. 1925) ranked #14, St. Joseph’s High, Bangalore (estb. 1858, #16), Sacred Heart Boys, Mumbai (estb. 1942, #19), St. Vincent’s School, Pune (estb. 1867, #24) among others.
To view EW India Boys Day Schools Rankings visit www.educationworld.in/rank-school/all-cities/day-school/boys/2015.html