EducationWorld India’s best day-cum-boarding schools 2022-23

Day-cum-boarding schools are highly valued because they offer parents and children the advantages of living at home plus access to superior infrastructure that boarding schools invariably provide. Little wonder their number is rising every year

Emerald Heights International School, Indore (EHIS) with its founder Siddharth Singh

In the pioneer annual EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR) league tables, day-cum-boarding schools — whether affiliated with indigenous examination boards or international boards such as IB (Geneva/Hague) or Cambridge International (UK) — occupy a special place. They are highly valued because they offer parents/ students all the advantages of day and well-equipped boarding schools.

The advantages of living at home and receiving parental support plus access to superior infrastructure, especially in terms of co-curricular and sports and games facilities that boarding schools invariably provide, are available to day scholars. Simultaneously, boarders enjoy the advantages of professionally administered pastoral care in addition to 24×7 access to a wide range of co-curricular activities and sports and games facilities. Moreover, day-cum-boarding schools also offer the advantage of greater students and teacher diversity as they attract city-based day scholars as well as boarders from across the country, and in many instances from overseas.

In the circumstances, it’s unsurprising that the number of day-cum-boarding schools — especially in the private education sector — countrywide is rising exponentially every year. Against 162 day-cum boarding primary-secondaries ranked in the 2021-22 league table, the number has risen to 171. In addition to the factors cited above, day-cumboarding schools are also becoming attractive because poor urban planning and massive road traffic jams in cities which involve long commutes for day scholars, is prompting parents to opt for the boarding school option. To accommodate local communities, most day-cum-boarding schools provide weekly boarding and extended day schooling options. Hence their rising popularity and rising number.

Another useful social purpose that the rapidly multiplying number of upscale, well-furbished co-ed day-cum-boarding schools serve is they disburse high-quality, globally benchmarked education in nonmetropolitan cities across the country. With real estate prices in the country’s major metros having risen sky-high, room for expansion and introduction of boarding facilities and infrastructure is limited.