BANGALORE, India -- -Step by Step, Panchsheel (Delhi); Indus Early Learning Centre, Whitefield (Bangalore); Kangaroo Kids, Banjara Hills (Hyderabad); Kangaroo 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/DLF Phase I (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 2014 released on December 6 rates and ranks 173 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 (ECCE) 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 3,128 respondents including parents (with at least one child in preschool), teachers and principals, asking them to rate 173 preschools on ten parameters of education excellence including teacher 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.

“A spate of neuroscience studies conducted in the new millennium has conclusively proved that children’s brains are almost fully developed by the time they are eight years of age. Therefore professionally-administered ECCE which stimulates cognitive development and generates love of learning in the early years is of critical importance in developing India’s human resource endowment. The purpose and intent of the annual EducationWorld India Preschool Rankings is to stimulate the multiplication and upgradation of ECCE institutions so they transform into excellent pre-primaries/preschools providing children in the 0-6 age group enriching early years education. By rating and ranking the country’s best preschools in the major cities, we hope to stimulate healthy institutional competition and help young parents to make suitable preschool choices,” says Dilip Thakore, editor of EducationWorld.

The Top 10 preschools of all ten cities will be felicitated at the forthcoming 5th Early Childhood Education Global Conference 2015 scheduled for January 23, 2015 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, Mumbai.

Delhi Top 10

1 Step by Step, Panchsheel

1 The Magic Years, Vasant Vihar

2 The Ardee School, Sujan Singh Park

3 Little Pearls Play School, Vasant Vihar

4 The Learning Tree, Sujan Singh Park

5 Kangaroo Kids, GK I

6 Shishuvan, Vasant Kunj

7 Aadyant, Vasant Kunj

8 Petals School, Nirman Vihar

9 Kangaroo Kids, Vasant Kunj

10 Julia Gabriel Centre for Learning, Vasant Kunj

Mumbai

1 Kangaroo Kids, Bandra

2 Podar Jumbo Kids Plus, Santacruz (West)

3 Besant Montessori School, Juhu

4 Leapbridge International Preschool, Sion

5 Alpha Kids, Andheri (W)

6 Little Bo Peep, Khar (W)

7 Casa Bambino, Bhulabhai Desai Road

8 West Wind, Gamdevi

9 Kangaroo Kids, Lamington Road

10 Children’s Nook, Gamdevi

Kolkata

1 Mongrace Montessori House, Short Street

2 Stepping Stone, Salt Lake

3 EuroKids, BB Block, Salt Lake

4 Montessori Bal Nilaya, Lake Gardens

5 The Tree House, New Alipore

6 Kangaroo Kids, New Alipore

7 Mongrace Montessori House and Day Care Centre, New Town

8 Prarambh, BT Road

9 Kangaroo Kids, Salt Lake

10 Kidzee Tulip, Dover Lane

Chennai

1 Vruksha Montessori, Alwarpet

2 Vael’s Billabong High-Kangaroo Kids, Neelankarai

3 SEED, Adyar

4 aLphabet, Alwarpet

5 Bambino Kindergarten & Primary School, Raja Annamalai Puram

6 Bamboola, R.A. Puram

7 Sprouts Montessori, Mylapore

8 Indus Early Learning Centre, Adyar

9 Patasala Montessori School, Nungambakkam

10 Srishti Montessori School, Nungambakkam

10 Kidzee, Anna Nagar

Bangalore

1 Indus Early Learning Centre, Whitefield

2 Head Start Montessori, Koramangala

3 First Steps, Cunningham Crescent Road

4 Neev, Indiranagar

5 Magical Years, Kodigehalli

6 Gaia Preschool, RT Nagar

7 VidyaSagar Nurture, RMV 2nd Stage

8 WeCare, Sarjapur Road

9 Greenwood High Preschool, Whitefield

10 Podar Jumbo Kids, Dollars Layout

Hyderabad

1 Kangaroo Kids, Banjara Hills

2 Globe Tot'ers, Jubilee Hills

3 Indus Early Learning Centre, Jubilee Hills

4 Glendale Edufun, Banjara Hills

5 Blue Blocks, Gachibowli

6 Open Interactive Play School, Jubilee Hills

7 Indus International Junior School, Gachibowli

8 Polka Dots, Jubilee Hills

9 CHIREC, Jubilee Hills

10 Kinder Kare, Gachibowli

10 EuroKids, Banjara Hills

Ahmedabad

1 EuroKids, Satellite

2 The Tree House, Vastrapur

3 Calorx Preschool, Maninagar

4 EuroKids, Vastrapur

5 Shanti Juniors, Prahladnagar

6 Calorx Preschool, Isanpur

7 Vedant International School, Kankaria

8 KLAY, Satellite Complex

9 Rangoli Preschool, Bopal

10 Olive Green Kids School, Navarangpura

Pune

1 Leapbridge International Preschool, Kalyani Nagar

2 Serra International Preschool, Aundh

3 Primrose Nursery, Koregaon Park

4 Orange Ivy Play School, Viman Nagar

5 Leapbridge International Preschool, Aundh

6 Vivero International Preschool, Kalyani Nagar

7 Sapling Nursery, Baner Road

8 The Tree House, Aundh

9 Little Millennium,Viman Nagar

10 EuroKids, Kalyani Nagar

Gurgaon

1 Pallavan, Sohna Road/ DLF Phase I

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

3 Pathways Early Years, Sector 49

4 Amiown Preschool, Sector 27

5 iDiscoveri Preschool, Sector 46

6 Medhaam Preschool, South City I

7 Apple Blossom Early Learning Centre, Sector 45

8 BloomZ, Sector 51

9 Pumpkin House, Sushant Lok

9 Salwan Montessori School, Sector 5

Noida

1 Windows Play Group & Nursery School, Sector 50

2 Gaia Playschool, Sector 93

3 Amiown, Sector 44

4 Kangaroo Kids, Sector 34

5 Maple Bear Canadian Preschool, Sector 48

6 Little Pearls Play School, Sector 29

7 Pathways Early Years, Sector 100

8 Khaitan Preschool, Sector 40

9 Stimulus Preschool, Sector 39

10 Gennext, Sector 62

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 15 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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