BANGALORE, India -- The Magic Years, Vasant Vihar (Delhi); Head Start Montessori, Koramangala (Bangalore); Indus Early Learning Centre, Jubilee Hills (Hyderabad); Podar Jumbo Kids, Bandra (Mumbai); Mongrace Montessori House, Short Street (Kolkata); Vruksha Montessori, Alwarpet (Chennai); Leapbridge International Preschool, Kalyani Nagar (Pune); EuroKids, Satellite (Ahmedabad); Pallavan, Sohna Road (Gurgaon), and Windows Play Group & Nursery School, Sector 50 (Noida), have been adjudged the most admired pre-primary preschools in India.

The EducationWorld India Preschool Rankings 2013 released on December 9 rates and ranks 175 selected preschools in ten cities -- Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad, Gurgaon and Noida where awareness of the vital importance of foundational early childhood care and education is highest.

To conduct the survey, over 200 field researchers of the Delhi-based market research agency Centre for Forecasting & Research Pvt. Ltd (C fore) quizzed 2,705 respondents including parents (with at least one child in preschool), teachers and principals, asking them to rate 175 preschools on ten parameters of education excellence.

Respondents were asked to rate preschools in their cities on ten parameters of excellence including teaching competence, teacher welfare and development, safety and hygiene, leadership, innovative teaching, value for money, parental involvement, individual attention to students, special needs education and infrastructure. The scores awarded to preschools under each parameter were totaled to rank preschools in each city inter se.

“The purpose and intent of the annual EducationWorld India Preschool Rankings 2013 is to stimulate the multiplication and upgradation of nascent ECCE institutions countrywide. This is an essential precondition of endowing the vast majority of India’s neglected and short-changed children with a foundation for life-long learning,” says Dilip Thakore, editor of EducationWorld.

The Top 10 preschools of all ten cities will be felicitated at the forthcoming 4th Early Childhood Education Global Conference 2014 scheduled for January 25, 2014 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel, Bangalore.

Delhi

1 The Magic Years, Vasant Vihar

2 Step by Step, Panchsheel

3 Little Pearls Play School, Vasant Vihar

4 Kangaroo Kids, GK I

5 Shishuvan, Vasant Kunj

6 The Ardee Montessori School, Sujan Singh Park

7 Julia Gabriel Centre for Learning, Saket

8.Learning Tree, Sujan Singh Park

9 Aadyant, Vasant Kunj

10 Kidzee, Nirman Vihar

Delhi. In Delhi, 225 parents of preschool-going children and 61 principals and teachers have ranked The Magic Years Montessori House of Children (TMY), Vasant Vihar and Step by Step, Panchsheel, as Delhi’s #1 and #2 preschool in the EducationWorld India Preschool Rankings 2013 for the fourth time consecutively, followed by Little Pearls Play School, Vasant Vihar, Kangaroo Kids, GK I, and Shishuvan, Vasant Kunj who constitute the Top 5. Of the Top 10, the preschool which has risen most in the estimation of ECCE monitors in Delhi is Little Pearls Play School, Vasant Vihar (LPPS) ranked #3 in the EW Preschools Rankings 2013.

Mumbai

1 Podar Jumbo Kids, Santacruz (West)

2 Kangaroo Kids, Bandra

3 Casa Bambino, Bhulabhai Desai Road

4 Leapbridge International Preschool, Sion

5 Little Bo Peep, Khar (W)

6 West Wind, Gamdevi

7 Camlin Alpha Kids, Andheri (W)

8 Kangaroo Kids, Lamington Road

9 EuroKids, Lokhandwala, Andheri

10 Children’s Nook, Gamdevi

Kolkata

1 Mongrace Montessori House, Short Street

2 EuroKids, Salt Lake

3 Stepping Stone, Salt Lake

4 EuroKids, Lake Town

5 Kangaroo Kids, New Alipore

6 Alipore Tiny Tots

7 Kangaroo Kids, Salt Lake

8 Bal Nilaya, Lake Gardens

9 The Tree House, New Alipore

10 Young Learners, Salt Lake

Chennai

1 Vruksha Montessori, Alwarpet

2 Vael’s Billabong High-Kangaroo Kids, Neelankarai

3 Bambino Kindergarten & Primary School, Raja Annamalai Puram

4 Srishti Montessori School, Nungambakkam

5 SEED, Anna Nagar

6 Vanilla Play School, R.A. Puram

7 SEED, Adyar

8 Bamboola, R.A. Puram

9 Learning Tree, Adyar

10 Alphabet Play School, Alwarpet

Bangalore

1 Head Start Montessori, Koramangala

2 Indus Early Learning Centre, Whitefield

3 Neev, Indiranagar

4 First Steps, Cunningham Crescent Road

5 Magical Years, Kodigehalli

6 VidyaSagar Nurture, RMV 2nd Stage

7 Cherry Tree, Vasanth Nagar

8 Petals Montessori School, Marathahalli

9 WeCare, Sarjapur Road

10 Gaia Preschool, RT Nagar

Hyderabad

1 Indus Early Learning Centre, Jubilee Hills

2 Globe Toters, Jubilee Hills

3 Kangaroo Kids, Banjara Hills

4 Blue Blocks, Gachibowli,

5 Glendale Edufun, Banjara Hills

6 Open Interactive Play School, Jubilee Hills

7 Polka Dots, Jubilee Hills

8 Kinder Kare, Gachibowli

9 EuroKids, Banjara Hills

10 Open Interactive Play School, Gachibowli

Ahmedabad

1 EuroKids, Satellite

2 Calorx Preschool, Maninagar

3 Shanti Juniors, Prahladnagar

4 Kidzee, Thakkarnagar

5 EuroKids, Vastrapur

6 Calorx Preschool, Isanpur

7 The Tree House, Vastrapur

8 Rising Kids, Rajpath Club Road

9 Rangoli Preschool, Bopal

10 KLAY, Satellite Complex

Pune

1 Leapbridge International Preschool, Kalyani Nagar

2 Serra International Preschool, Aundh

3 Vivero International Preschool, Kalyani Nagar

4 Leapbridge International, Aundh

5 Orange Ivy Play School, Viman Nagar

6 Primrose Nursery, Koregaon Park

7 Sapling Nursery, Baner Road

8 Little Millennium,Viman Nagar

9 EuroKids, Kalyani Nagar

10 The Tree House, Aundh

Gurgaon

1 Pallavan, Sohna Road

2 The Shri Ram Early Years, Sector 48, Sohna Road

3 Anand Preschool, DLF I

4 iDiscoveri XSEED Preschool, Sector 46

5 Pumpkin House, Sushant Lok

6 Medhaam Preschool, South City I

7 Modern Montessori International, DLF Phase I

7 BloomZ, Sector 51

8 ibambini Preschool, Sector 56

9 Pathways Early Years, Sector 49

10 KLAY, Sector 49

Noida

1 Windows Play Group & Nursery, Sector 50

2 Gaia, Sector 93

3 Kangaroo Kids, Sector 34

4 Amiown, Sector 44

5 Little Pearls Play School, Sector 29

6 Gennext, Sector 62

7 Gunjan Play School, Sector 62

8 Kidzee, Sector 62

9 Mother’s Pride, Sector 19

10 Rhythm Play School, Sector 51

About EducationWorld -

EducationWorld bills itself as India’s sole education news and analysis monthly magazine reporting on the entire education spectrum from kindergarten to Ph D. Promoted in 1999 with the mission to “build the pressure of public opinion to make education the no.1 item on the national agenda”, EW is currently celebrating 13 years of uninterrupted publishing and claims a national readership of 1 million. Its promoter editor is Dilip Thakore, the former founder editor of Business India and Businessworld.

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