India Preschool Rankings

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Mumbai’s most respected preschools

With its liberal outward looking culture and capability to quickly adopt best industry and business practices, India’s commercial capital was also quick to take to professionally administered early childhood care and education India’s commercial capital and the country’s most respected epicentre of business and finance, the western seaboard city of Mumbai, aka Bombay (pop. 18 million), which prides itself on its liberal, outward looking culture and capability to quickly adopt best industry and business practices, was also quick to take to professionally administered early childhood care and education (ECCE). Pioneer proprietary preschools such as West Wind, Breach Candy (estb.1947) and Besant Montessori, Juhu (estb.1948) among others, began offering professionally managed ECCE long before the critical importance of pre-primary education had impacted the collective conscious of educators and the public. Proprietary Preschools Although a large number of new-age pre-primaries promoted by well-qualified young professionals have mushroomed in Mumbai whose population has ballooned to 18 million, it reflects well on the city’s hugely expanded middle class that it hasn’t abandoned its pioneer pre-primaries in favour of the new. Thus for the past four years, the vintage Besant Montessori, Juhu (estb. 1948) has been voted this go-getting metropolis’ #1 proprietary preschool followed by the new Alpha Kids International (estb. 2009) which has risen substantially in the esteem of Mumbai’s informed public and is ranked #2 (4) this year. “We are delighted to learn that Besant Montessori has again been adjudged Mumbai’s #1 pre-primary in the proprietary category. I would like to thank EducationWorld and your sample respondents for once again trusting our work and effort to provide high-quality age-appropriate education to our children. We attribute our success to the exemplary cooperation between our parents and teachers and appreciation and encouragement from our trustees. Besant Montessori was founded 70 years ago by educationist Tehmina Wadia. I am very pleased that we have been able to build on the strong foundation she provided this school, and have maintained the high standards of early childhood education that she set for us,” says Dolly Wadia who started as a teacher of this pioneer preschool in the 1950s and was appointed director in 1991 after the demise of Tehmina. Currently, this top-ranked pre-primary has 150 children and 15 teachers on its muster rolls. Although Besant Montessori has steadfastly retained its #1 ranking, there is a substantial reordering of seating at the Top 5 table. This year’s 704 sample respondents in Mumbai have double promoted Alpha Kids International (AKI), Andheri (W) ranked #4 last year, to #2 in 2018-19. “Being ranked among the top two preschools of Mumbai is a tremendous morale booster for our management, teachers, staff and parents. It will definitely motivate our entire team in AKI to maintain the momentum to reach great heights in Mumbai and five other cities in which we have over 20 affiliated preschools. The credit for this achievement should accrue to our management team which has stood with us for the past ten years,” says Avantika Goenka, director of AKI. Goenka…

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Noida’s best preschools 2018-19

Field personnel of the Delhi-based C fore interviewed 563 well-informed parents of preschool children and 67 principals/teachers in Noida to rate and rank 22 pre-primaries in the proprietary/owned and franchised categories across ten parameters of ECCE excellence. Here are Noida’s best preschools 2018-19. The New Okhla Industrial Development Authority aka Noida, sited in the Gautam Buddha Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh — India’s most populous (227 million) and backward state — is an island of prosperity which has rapidly transformed into an IT/ITES services hotspot. Within easy motoring distance from Delhi and included in the National Capital Region together with Gurgaon and Ghaziabad, this fast growing satellite city (pop. 650,000), which hosts offices of IT heavyweights such as Wipro Technologies, TCS, HCL, IBM, Dell and Accenture, attracts thousands of highly educated and skilled professionals who understand the value of and demand professionally administered early childhood care and education (ECCE) for their progeny. To compile the EW Noida Preschool Rankings 2018-19, field personnel of the Delhi-based market research and opinion polls company C fore interviewed 563 well-informed parents of preschool children and 67 principals/teachers in Noida to rate and rank 22 pre-primaries in the proprietary/owned and franchised categories across ten parameters of ECCE excellence. Proprietary preschools Although Noida’s informed sample respondents have reconfirmed Gaia Playschool, Sector 93, Amiown, Sector 44 and Khaitan Preschool, Sector 40 as the city’s top three proprietary pre-primaries, they have also promoted the previously #3 ranked Windows Play Group & Nursery School, Sector 50 to #2 (jointly with Amiown) and Pathways Early Years, Sector 100 to #3 (tied with Khaitan Preschool). The Top 5 table is completed by Stimulus Preschool, Sector 39 which has moved up to #4 (5) and Serra International, Sector 62 at #5 which has made an impressive debut in this year’s EW Noida proprietary preschools league table. Established in 2008 and sited on a green campus with a duck pond, Gaia Playschool is top-ranked on seven of EducationWorld’s ten parameters of ECCE excellence, including teacher competence and development, infrastructure provision, value for money, innovative teaching, and leadership. “Our #1 ranking for the past three years is public endorsement of Gaia’s commitment to celebrate the innate talents and individuality of every child, instill social values and ethics derived from India’s traditional education system, and deliver a nature-friendly curriculum. We invest heavily in teacher recruitment and development. Therefore, I am especially pleased about our top scores under the parameters of teacher competence and welfare, and innovative teaching. Special needs education is also very close to my heart. Among my numerous future plans is to establish a special wing for autistic children,” says Aditi Jain, a political science postgraduate of Dehradun University and founder-chairperson of Gaia Playschool, which has an enrolment of 96 children and five teachers. Jain also manages Anandam, a free-of-charge school for 96 economically underprivileged children, and is an active member of the CABE (Central Advisory Board of Education) committee of the Union HRD ministry. Likewise Aneesha Sahni, coordinator of Pathways Early Years, Sector…

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Delhi’s top-ranked preschools

With rising awareness of the vital importance of high-quality ECCE within Delhi’s expanding middle class, C fore field researchers interviewed 755 sample respondents (preschool parents, principals and teachers) to rate and rank 41 sufficiently well-known proprietary and 25 franchised preschools in the national capital Awareness of the critical importance of professionally administered early childhood care and education (ECCE) is arguably more acute in Delhi (pop. 18.6 million) — the sprawling megalopolis which has not only been awarded statehood by the Union government, but also the nomenclature of Delhi NCR (national capital region) which includes swathes of the contiguous states of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh by business and industry — than any other Indian city. Every winter, winding queues of anxious middle class parents ready and willing to brave the toxic early morning air of the world’s most polluted metropolis, are witnessed before the gates of the national capital’s most reputed pre-primary schools. They are part of the annual scramble for admission forms of these pre-primaries, (aka preschools) which they believe will provide high quality age-appropriate ECCE that will stand their progeny in good stead when they enter formal schooling, higher education institutions and workplaces. Although the longest queues form before the gates of composite K-12 schools which also offer pre-primary education — because admission into composite schools ensures smooth continuity in school education until class XII — the waiting lines in front of Delhi’s standalone top-ranked preschools are barely shorter. A huge demand-supply disequilibrium in high-quality professionally administered early childhood education is the motivating factor behind the annual scramble for admission into pre-primaries across the city offering ECCE at all price points. Against this backdrop of rising — even if belated — awareness of the vital importance of ECCE within the fast-expanding middle class of Delhi NCR, field researchers of the highly-reputed, Delhi-based market research and opinion polls company C fore interviewed a mix of 755 sample respondents comprising parents with preschool children, and preschool principals and teachers, and persuaded them to rate and rank 41 sufficiently well-known proprietary and 25 franchised preschools in their city. Proprietary and franchised schools are separately rated and ranked to avoid apples and oranges-type comparisons. OWNED/PROPRIETARY PRESCHOOLS The proprietary preschools league table for Delhi has been topped by The Magic Years, Vasant Vihar (TMY, estb.1984) ab initio since EducationWorld pioneered the idea of rating and ranking preschools countrywide eight years ago in the public interest. However, with the promotion of several new globally benchmarked preschools by highly qualified and knowledgeable pre-primary educationists in the national capital, TMY’s dominance of the Delhi league table is being challenged. In recent years, TMY’s title has been strongly challenged by Step by Step, Panchsheel (SbS, estb. 1992) which was ranked #1 in 2016-17 before TMY regained its premier ranking last year. This year it’s perhaps in the fitness of things that both these excellent preschools are jointly ranked #1 in Delhi in the proprietary category with SbS ranked #1 on three of the ten parameters — teacher welfare…

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Kolkata’s premier pre-primaries

Fortunately the ECCE sector has been spared the heavy hand of government interference which has ruined K-12 and higher education institutions of West Bengal. Therefore insulated from government regulation, preschools dispensing good, bad and indifferent ECCE are flourishing in the City of Joy Though the number of pre-primaries (39) ranked in the eastern metropolis of Kolkata (pop.15 million) is comparatively less than in other metros (Mumbai: 69, Delhi: 66 and Bangalore: 80), there’s sufficient awareness within the city’s bhadralok (refined middle class) of the importance of high-quality early childhood care and education (ECCE) to prepare children to derive the full benefit of school and higher education. Over the past decade several greenfield preschools — proprietary and franchised — have sprung up in the city to meet the growing demand for professionally rendered ECCE from millennial parents. Fortunately, the ECCE sector has been spared the heavy hand of government regulation and interference which has ruined K-12 and higher education institutions in West Bengal. The CPM (Communist Party of India-Marxist)-led Left Front government, which uninterruptedly ruled West Bengal for 34 years (1977-2011), decimated the state’s education system by infiltrating quasi-literate party members into the academy. Unfortunately, its successor Trinamool Congress (TMC) government of Mamata Banerjee, now in its second five-year term in office, has done precious little to initiate reforms. However, insulated from government interference, pre-primaries dispensing good, bad and indifferent ECCE are flourishing and multiplying in Kolkata, the state’s admin capital. Proprietary/owned preschools The five-year reign of the vintage Mongrace Montessori House, Short Street (MM-SH, estb.1964) as Kolkata’s #1 proprietary preschool is not over though its victory margin has been reduced to five points, ahead of its affiliated Mongrace Montessori, New Town (estb. 2010), ranked #2 for the second consecutive year. The 581 parents with at least one child in preschool and 80 pre-primary principals and teachers interviewed by Delhi-based market research and opinion polls company C fore in Kolkata have rated and ranked MM-SH #1 for competence of teachers, safety and hygiene, special needs education, teacher care and development and value for money across the proprietary and franchised categories. “That MM-SH has retained its #1 rank despite stiff competition is very fulfilling for us. Over the past 54 years since we admitted our first batch of toddlers, we have initiated several generations into the world of education. The fact that Mongrace, New Town is a close second doubles our joy. Our 32 teachers are highly qualified in Montessori pedagogy and undergo constant professional development. Therefore, our top-rating under the parameter of competence of teachers is very satisfying. Many of them have completed online certificate courses on global citizenship and use of ICT of the British Council. I believe it’s the willingness of our teachers to adopt and integrate contemporary pedagogies that keeps us on the top of the EW league table,” says Suman Sood, a graduate of Panjab and Calcutta universities who took charge as principal of MH-SH in 2011. Currently, this pre-primary has 300 students mentored by 32 teachers. While…

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Gurgaon’s most admired preschools

To meet the demand for high-quality early childhood education from Gurgaon’s growing pool of professionals employed in the manufacturing, IT/ITES among other industries, new-age pre-primaries have proliferated in this satellite city Since 1981 when Maruti Suzuki Ltd, India’s #1 automobile company established its first manufacturing unit in Gurgaon (pop.876,900), this satellite city of Delhi — sited in Haryana but included in the Delhi National Capital Region — has not only attracted industry and business investment in a big way but also edupreneurs who have established several globally benchmarked K-12 schools (GD Goenka, Pathways, Scottish High) and universities (Ashoka, O.P. Jindal). Inevitably, to meet the demand for high-quality early childhood education which prepares children for success in school and higher education from Gurgaon’s growing pool of professionals employed in the manufacturing, IT/ITES among other industries, new-age pre-primaries have proliferated in this satellite city. This year’s league table rating and ranking Gurgaon’s most-reputed preschools is encouraging with the number of sufficiently well-known ranked pre-primaries having almost doubled from 15 in 2015 to 29 in 2018. C fore field researchers interviewed 563 parents and 67 preschool principals of this steel-n-glass city to rank 29 pre-primaries inter se in two categories — owned/proprietary and franchised Owned/proprietary preschools Pallavan, Sohna Road/DLF Phase I (estb.2001), promoted by Arun Kapur, the celebrated director of Delhi’s top-ranked Vasant Valley School, has firmly established itself as the millennium city’s most admired pre-primary. It has been voted Gurgaon’s #1 proprietary pre-primary for the seventh consecutive year. However, this year Pallavan is obliged to share top ranking with Amiown, Sector 27 — promoted by the Amity group — ranked #2 in 2017 and #1 in 2016. They are followed by iDiscoveri XSEED Preschool, Sector 46 at #2 which has retained its last year’s ranking. Storming into the Top 5 are several debutants: Anand Preschool, DLF Phase I at #3, Little Pearls, Cyber City ranked #4 jointly with Shalom Hills Preschool, Sushant Lok and The Shri Ram Early Years, Aravali Junior Campus #5. Renu Kaul, director of the Pallavan schools in Sohna Road and DLF Phase I, is “deeply satisfied” that this two-unit school has retained its apex ranking with top scores under the parameters of teacher competence and development, leadership quality, value for money, and infrastructure provision. “We are very happy to have lived up to the expectations of your informed sample respondents. At Pallavan, we are constantly striving to better ourselves to ensure that our children get the best they deserve in the short time that they are with us. However, although we are delighted with our top scores for teacher competence and development, I believe our distinguishing feature is our simplicity and values-based education philosophy which puts children at the centre of teaching-learning. We love and enjoy our children and let them grow and learn naturally in a care-free environment,” says Kaul, an alumna of Delhi and Toronto universities with 13 years of experience in Vasant Valley and Springdales schools prior to being appointed director of Pallavan in 2001.…

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Model top-ranked anganwadis in 3 metros

Grudging budgetary support disables India’s 1.4 million anganwadis from providing proper early childhood care and education to India’s 84 million children in the age group 0-5 years from poorest households In 1976, former prime minister Indira Gandhi launched the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) programme under which anganwadis — essentially nutrition centres for lactating mothers and children in the age group 0-5 years from poorest households which were also mandated to provide pre-primary education — were established countrywide. Forty two years later, India hosts 1.4 million anganwadis which provide nutrition and rudimentary early childhood education to 84 million children i.e 51 percent of the country’s 164 million children in the age group 0-5 years. Unfortunately, because of inadequate and grudging budgetary support from the Central and state governments, the country’s 1.4 million anganwadis — the large majority of whom are manned by an under-paid and under-trained solitary caretaker — have been unable to provide universal coverage or fulfill their mandate to offer early childhood education to poorest children. In the Union Budget 2018-19, the Central government allocated Rs.16,334.88 crore for the ICDS programme — a mere Rs.1,944 per child per year — a sum clearly inadequate to provide nutrition, leave alone professionally administered ECCE. Ab initio, EducationWorld has been demanding and has also repeatedly published road maps for providing an additional Rs.110,000 crore for the ICDS programme. This year for the first time we present a ranking of Top 3 anganwadis in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore. The Delhi-based market research company Centre for Forecasting and Research (C fore), which has conducted the EW India Preschool Rankings 2018-19, sounded selected ECCE experts and education NGOs to compile these truncated league tables. Delhi 1. Rajkumari Amrit Kaur Child Study Centre, Lady Irwin College 2. Nigam Nursery School, Krishna Nagar 3. Nigam Nursery School, Chandra Vihar Mumbai 1. Balwadi, Maneklal Mehta MPS School, Ghatkopar (W) 2. Balwadi, Goshala MPS School, Goshala Road, Mulund (W) 3. Balwadi, Sainath Nagar MPS School, Sainath Nagar, Ghatkopar (W) Bangalore 1. Anganwadi Kendra, Ashwathanagar, Hebbal 2. Anganwadi Kendra, Kavalbyrasandra, RT Nagar 3. Anganwadi Kendra, Hosur Road, Koramangala

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Pune’s top-ranked preschools

With 33 percent of its residents under the age of 30, Pune is the third largest provider of hi-tech jobs after Bangalore and Delhi. Therefore it’s experiencing a high demand surge for professionally administered early childhood care and education With India’s Silicon Valley, Bangalore, reaching near saturation point in terms of road infrastructure and affordable office space, Pune is emerging as a preferred alternative for the still rising number of IT and biotech companies and start-ups pitching tent in India. The second largest city of Maharashtra, Pune (pop.6.2 million), with 33 percent of its residents under the age of 30 years, is the third largest provider of tech jobs after Bangalore and Delhi. Therefore it’s hardly surprising that this ancient city of the Maratha Peshwas with a strong academic and cultural tradition, is experiencing a high demand surge for professionally rendered early childhood care and education (ECCE) from well-qualified new-age industry professionals aware of indispensable importance of ECCE for their infants. In the eighth EducationWorld India Preschool Rankings 2018-19, 15 sufficiently well-known proprietary and 10 franchised preschools of Pune have been rated and ranked by 511 parents with at least one child in preschool, and 65 ECCE teachers and principals. Proprietary preschools Promoted in 2014 by the Bangalore-based Indus Trust, which owns and manages invariably Top 10 ranked Indus International schools in Bangalore, Pune and Hyderabad, Indus Early Learning Centre (IELC), Koregaon Park has retained its #1 rank of 2017-18 with highest scores awarded under seven of the ten parameters of ECCE excellence, including teacher competence and development, innovative teaching and infrastructure provision. With minimal rearrangement of seating at the Top 5 table of Pune’s proprietary preschools this year, Primrose Nursery, Koregaon Park, ranked #2 and Global Montessori Plus, Chinchwad #3 have retained last year’s ranks and Indus Early Learning Centre (IELC), Bhosale Nagar has inched up to #3 (4 in 2017). Formerly a franchisee school of Kangaroo Kids, Rose Kids, Pimple Saudagar, has gone solo this year and is the sole debutant in the Top 5. “We are thrilled to learn that IELC, Koregaon Park is ranked #1 in Pune for the second year in succession. I’m thankful to every member of our team who strives hard to maintain the high standards we set four years ago when we admitted our first batch of children. Our teachers have been constantly innovating and introducing new teaching-learning practices such as mindfulness, design thinking, and leadership development activities. That’s why your sample respondents have ranked us high for teacher competence and innovative teaching. I am also very pleased with our #1 ranking under the parameter of infrastructure provision because a welcoming child-friendly environment is the prerequisite of joyful learning,” says Rachna Gupta, an alumna of IGNOU, Delhi with a Cambridge International diploma in early childhood education and centre head of IELC, Koregaon Park. Currently, the school has an enrollment of 65 students and 12 teachers and 15 support staff. While there’s minimal change in the Top 5, below the salt on the…

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Hyderabad’s most admired preschools 2018-19

Over the past decade this de facto capital of Telangana and de jure capital of Andhra Pradesh has witnessed an upsurge in the promotion of internationally benchmarked pre-primaries to meet growing demand from new-age industry professionals. Here are Hyderabad’s most admired preschools 2018-19. The administrative capital of India’s newest state of Telangana (estb.2014) and de jure capital of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad (pop. 6.8 million) is a major hub of early childhood and K-12 education. The city of nawabs and pearls hosts several top-ranked schools, and standalone early childhood care and education (ECCE) pre-primaries which provide high quality education to infants in the 0-5 age group. In particular over the past decade, this southern city which has also emerged as a nucleus of the IT and biotech industries, has witnessed an upsurge in the promotion of internationally benchmarked pre-primaries and K-12 education institutions to meet growing demand for excellent schooling from new-age industry professionals. In the EW India Preschool Rankings 2018-19, informed sample respondents comprising 646 parents with preschool children and 86 principals and teachers rated and ranked 27 of the city’s sufficiently well-known proprietary and 39 franchised preschools on ten parameters of preschool excellence. The scores awarded by the sample respondents under each parameter were totaled to rank pre-primaries inter se in each category. Proprietary/owned Preschools In the 2018-19 league table of Hyderabad’s most respected pre-primaries, Indus International Primary School (IIPS), Jubilee Hills has dislodged Chirec, Jubilee Hills as the city’s #1 pre-primary in the proprietary category. In 2017-18, these two pre-primaries shared the #1 ranking. This year, the 732 informed sample respondents interviewed by C fore in Hyderabad have ranked Chirec #3 jointly with Glendale Edufun, Somajiguda, while Oi Playschool, Jubilee Hills has retained its #2 rank. Further down the Top 10 table KinderKare, Gachibowli has slipped to #4 (3 in 2018) while Indus International Junior School, Gachibowli at #5, CHIREC, Gachibowli #6, Nasr School, Jubilee Hills #7, First Innings, Banjara Hills #8 and Nasr School, Somajiguda #10 have all retained last year’s rankings. The only new entrant in the Top 10 league table of Hyderabad’s proprietary preschools is Polka Dots, Jubilee Hills, which has risen in public esteem and is ranked #9 this year (12). Promoted in 2011 by the Bangalore-based Indus Trust (regstd. 2003), which owns and manages the premier Indus International schools in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Pune (routinely ranked among India’s Top 10 international day-cum-boarding schools in the annual EW India School Rankings), IIPS, Jubilee Hills, is top-rated on the parameters of teacher competence and development, treacher welfare, individual attention to students, infrastructure provision, leadership quality, safety and hygiene and innovative teaching across the proprietary and franchised categories. “We are delighted to be top ranked for the second year in succession and top-rated on seven parameters of early childhood education excellence. This is the outcome of the earnest efforts of our well-trained teachers and staff who have created a safe, caring and stimulating learning environment for our 260 children. I am especially pleased with our #1…

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Chennai’s top preschools

To enable the city’s middle class parents to select the most suitable preschools for their children, C fore field personnel interviewed 622 preschool parents and 75 principals/teachers in Chennai to rate and rank 55 proprietary and franchised pre-primaries Households in the southern city of Chennai (pop. 9.8 million) have always placed a high premium on good quality K-12 and higher education. This industrial port city has a reputation for hosting well-reputed primary-secondary schools and tertiary education institutions in STEM (science, technology, engineering, maths) subjects with Tamil Nadu (pop. 63 million) boasting the largest number of engineering colleges (526) in India. Therefore, it’s unsurprising that there’s rising parental demand for professionally administered early childhood care and education (ECCE) which prepares children for success in school and higher education. To enable the city’s SEC (socio-economic category) ‘A’ parents to select the most suitable preschools for their children, field personnel of the Delhi-based market research and opinion polls company Centre for Forecasting and Research (C fore) interviewed 622 preschool parents and 75 principals/teachers in Chennai to rate and rank 55 sufficiently well-known proprietary and franchised pre-primaries under ten parameters of ECCE excellence including competence of teachers, infrastructure, innovative teaching, safety and hygiene, individual attention to students etc. Owned/proprietary Since 2016, SEED, Adyar and Vruksha Montessori, Alwarpet have been alternatively voted Chennai’s #1 proprietary pre-primaries. This year SEED, Adyar ranked #2 last year has displaced Vruksha Montessori as the city’s #1 pre-primary. Following Vruksha, ranked #2, is Indus Early Learning Centre, Neelankarai, which has retained its #3 rank for the third consecutive year. Affiliated Indus preschools in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Pune are also ranked among the Top 3 preschools in these cities. Promoted in 2004 by Jaya Sastri, an ECCE alumna of Trenton College, New Jersey (USA) who acquired valuable teaching experience in Headstart, USA, before promoting SEED, Adyar 14 years ago, this globally benchmarked pre-primary is top-ranked on the parameters of innovative teaching, individual attention to students, leadership, parental involvement and special needs education across the proprietary and franchised categories. “It’s great news that we have regained our #1 ranking. I believe parents greatly appreciate our commitment to providing a safe, nurturing and positive environment for children. That’s why they consistently rank SEED, Adyar among the top preschools of Chennai. In particular, parents highly value our 1:10 teacher-pupil ratio which enables teachers to devote individual attention to children and adapt lessons and activities for their specific learning and development needs. Moreover from last year, we have made special efforts to reach out and educate parents about positive parenting,” says Sastri who has successfully scaled and expanded SEED to a chain of 20 owned and 20 franchised preschools in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. Eight SEED owned pre-primaries are ranked in the 35-strong league table of Chennai’s best proprietary preschools. Yet the most dramatic rise in the 2018-19 league table is that of Vels International Preschool, Neelankarai (VIP-N, estb.2004). Ranked #1 in the franchised category in 2015 and 2016 as Vael’s Billabong High-Kangaroo Kids, its…

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