This year’s 11,368 sample respondents have voted Carmel Convent, Chandigarh India’s premier girls day school with top scores under the parameters of co-curricular education, infrastructure, value for money and community service The 2020-21 league table of India’s top-ranked girls day schools has experienced a sweeping makeover. The vintage JB Petit High School for Girls, Mumbai (JBPHS, estb.1865), which was ranked India’s #1 girls school for the past four years, has yielded top rank, trading places with the consistently second ranked Carmel Convent Girls School, Chandigarh (CCGS, estb.1959). This year’s 11,368 sample respondents comprising parents, teachers, principals and senior school students have voted CCGS India’s premier girls day school with top scores under the parameters of co-curricular education, individual attention to students, infrastructure provision, value for money and community service. “The credit for CCGS’ overdue promotion should be given to our 75 highly qualified and committed teachers who have created stress-free learning environments, enabling the holistic development of our girls. Over the past six months in particular with schools shut because of the Covid-19 pandemic, our teachers have made extraordinary efforts to ensure delivery of online learning to all our 2,039 girls. Therefore, I am happy that your survey respondents have rated our teachers highly. We will continue to strive to retain our top ranking in the future,” says Sr. Mary Supreeta A.C, principal of the CBSE-affiliated Carmel Convent Girls School, Chandigarh. With CCGS and JBPHS trading places, there is minor readjustment of seating at the Top 5 table. The top two are followed by Modern High for Girls, Kolkata ranked #3 (#4 in 2019-20) jointly with Rajmata Krishna Kumari Girls’ Public School, Jodhpur, which retains its last year’s ranking. La Martiniere for Girls, Kolkata has slipped to #4 (2) even as La Martiniere Girls College, Lucknow has risen in public esteem to be ranked #5 (10) jointly with Loreto House, Middleton, Kolkata which has retained its last year’s #5 ranking. Dr. Aashrita Dass, principal of La Martiniere Girls College, Lucknow (LMGC) is upbeat this CISCE-affiliated K-12 school has been promoted to the national Top 5 table and is ranked #1 in Uttar Pradesh (pop.215 million). “We are humbled by our huge promotion and thank your knowledgeable sample respondents for recognising the hard work of our teachers and students. Last year, LMGC celebrated its 150th anniversary with a series of high profile events and competitions. I am happy that your sample respondents have acknowledged our long service record of over a century in the cause of women’s education and emancipation. I am especially pleased that our school has been awarded top score for academic reputation, because our students have consistently produced excellent results in board exams. This year, the ICSE class averaged 91 percent,” says Dass, an alumna of Isabella Thoburn College, Lucknow and Faizabad University who has been associated with LMGC for the past 30 years, first as student and then as a teacher. Further down the top table, St. Mary’s School, Pune, at #6 and Sacred Heart Sr. Sec…
