India's Best Co-Ed Day Schools

Over 700 of India’s Top 1,000 schools rated and ranked in EWISR 2017-18 are co-ed day institutions. They are clearly the most preferred choice of middle class households countrywide

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Of India’s Top 1,000 schools rated on 14 parameters of education excellence by an unprecedented 12,367 sample respondents comprising parents, educationists, principals, teachers and senior school students countrywide for the EW India School Rankings 2017-18, over 700 are coed day schools. Assuming an average enrolment of 1,500 per school, over 1 million children are attending co-ed day schools clearly preferred by middle-class India, who whatever cynical leftists and jholawalas say, will lead the country at least in business and industry — if not other walks of life — in the 21st century.

However, it is pertinent to note that in the day schools category, city rankings followed by state and then national rankings in that order are of greater importance for parents. Given the reality that most of India’s states are as large and populous as entire foreign countries and that India itself is of the size and population of some continents, high state and city rankings are noteworthy achievements. They not only give schools ranked in the Top 10 in the states — and all schools included in the national league table — bragging rights, but also serve the purpose of role models to institutions that don’t make it into the Top 1,000 national table. Therefore, it’s useful to bear in mind that schools which may be modestly ranked in the national league table, could be highly ranked in cities and states.

Subject to these caveats and qualifications, India’s #1 co-ed day school of 2017-18 is the Noida (Delhi NCR)- based Step by Step (SbS, estb.2007). Ranked a modest #7 in 2015 and #4 last year, this year’s sample respondents have vaulted it to the top spot pushing last year’s #1, The Valley School, Bangalore