“This is great news. We are delighted that St. Mary’s School, Pune has retained its #1 rank as India’s and Maharashtra’s #1 vintage girls day school. It provides a sense of fulfillment for all the effort that our teachers and staff have invested in sustaining our growth and development over the past year. We have inherited a proven teaching-learning tradition of 158 years and to a great extent the good reputation we have earned is due to our capability to combine traditional values with futuristic learning . Therefore the top scores that we have been awarded under the parameters of academic reputation, infrastructure, leadership and value for money are very satisfying. They indicate that in St. Mary’s we focus on the holistic development of our children, not merely on academics. Our primary objective is to provide high quality, well-rounded education to all our students to transform them into confident individuals rich in character and competence. To this end we will continue to make all efforts to improve under all parameters of school excellence to meet the needs of the 21st century,” Caroline Diane Ross (centre), Principal, St. Mary’s School, Pune (estb. 1866) which has 2,763 girl children mentored by 154 teachers on its musters.