This year 52 proprietary and franchised preschools including 13 previously unranked pre-primaries were rated and ranked by 620 parents (with preschool children), teachers and principals in Hyderabad. Here are Hyderabad’s most preferred preschools 2016-17. Ranked India’s #1 state (jointly with neighbouring Andhra Pradesh) on the Ease of Doing Business Index 2016 of the World Bank, Telangana and in particular its capital city Hyderabad, are fast emerging as hubs of IT, biotech and other sunrise industries. Consequently, growing demand from upwardly-mobile new-age industry professionals for professionally administered early childhood care and education (ECCE) and internationally-benchmarked primary-secondary education has led to the establishment of a host of new age K-12 schools as well as pre-primaries. This year 52 proprietary and franchised preschools including 13 previously unranked primaries were rated and ranked by 620 parents (with preschool children), teachers and principals in Hyderabad. Proprietary preschools Except at the top where CHIREC, Jubilee Hills has once again been voted Hyderabad’s #1 owned/proprietary preschool, there has been a shake-up in the 2016 league table. Oi (Open Interactive) Playschool, Jubilee Hills has inched up from #3 in 2015 to share the #2 rank with Indus Early Learning Centre, Jubilee Hills (ranked #1 in 2015 in the pre-primaries of composite schools category, which has been discontinued this year). The discontinuation of this category has also adversely impacted Kinder Kare, Gachibowli which has slipped to #3 (#1 in the proprietary category in 2015) while Indus International Junior School, Gachibowli has retained its #4 rank even as First Innings, Banjara Hills has slid to #5 from #2 last year. Ratna Reddy, the celebrated promoter-director of CHIREC, Jubilee Hills (estb.1989) which has 222 students and 17 teachers on its muster rolls, is elated with the pre-primary’s overall #1 rank and top ranking on the parameters of teacher welfare and development and leadership quality. Moreover, its affiliate CHIREC, Gachibowli has debuted at #10 in the 2016 league table. “Almost 28 years ago, we pioneered the concept of holistic ECCE which has since become popular in Hyderabad. Our consistently top rank is due to general acknowledgement that we have maintained and improved the quality of our ECCE programme through constant innovation, latest pedagogies and technologies. I am most pleased with our #1 ranking on teacher welfare and development because teachers are pivotal to achieving quality and excellence,” says Reddy who has a postgrad degree in child development from the University of Hyderabad and a Masters in ECCE from Iowa University, USA. Reddy is also promoter of two K-12 schools in Hyderabad — CHIREC Public and CHIREC International (both ranked among the Top 10 day schools countrywide in the EW India School Rankings 2016). Likewise Naveen D’Souza, the Hyderabad-based business head of People Combine Playschool Initiatives Ltd which has five owned and 42 franchised Oi Playschools in Hyderabad and Bangalore, is pleased that its flagship company-owned Oi Playschool, Jubilee Hills has improved its overall ranking and is ranked #1 on the parameter of safety and hygiene. “It’s an honour that we are ranked…
