Five Indian Schools Shortlist In Top 10 For $250,000 World’s Best School Prizes 2023

Five inspirational Indian schools have been named in the Top 10 shortlists for the USD 250,000 World’s Best School Prizes. The five World’s Best School Prizes, founded last year by T4 Education in collaboration with Accenture, American Express, Yayasan Hasanah, and the Lemann Foundation are the world’s most prestigious education prizes. 

Nagar Nigam Pratibha Baalika Vidhyalaya (NPBV) F-Block, Dilshad Colony-1st, a government school in Delhi, India, which has broken through the traditional mould to provide community-based interventions and support to bridge the gap between teachers, students, and parents, has been named in the Top 10 shortlist for the World’s Best School Prize for Community Collaboration. 

Oberoi International School, an independent international school in Mumbai, India, which brings hope, empathy, and shared possibility to its students and surrounding communities, has also been named in the Top 10 shortlist for the World’s Best School Prize for Community Collaboration. 

The Riverside School, an independent international school in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, which has gained worldwide recognition for its groundbreaking, student-centric approach to education, particularly through its I CAN pedagogical model, has been named in the Top 10 shortlist for the World’s Best School Prize for Innovation.  

Snehalaya English Medium School, a charity school in Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, India, which has transformed the lives of children living with HIV/AIDS and those from sex worker families and ended second-generation prostitution in its district, has been named in the Top 10 shortlist for the World’s Best School Prize for Overcoming Adversity. 

Shindewadi Mumbai Public School (The Akanshka Foundation), a charter school in Mumbai, India, is attempting to reverse the impact of low immunity and poor nutrition among its student body and wider community after the lockdown, has been named in the Top 10 shortlist for the World’s Best School Prize for Supporting Healthy Lives. 

The five World’s Best School Prizes - for Community Collaboration, Environmental Action, Innovation, Overcoming Adversity, and Supporting Healthy Lives - celebrate schools everywhere for the pivotal role they play in developing the next generation of learners and for their enormous contribution to society’s progress, especially in the wake of COVID. The Prizes were established to share the best practices of schools that are transforming the lives of their students and making a real difference to their communities. 

The school has also partnered with Habitat for Humanity to build homes for the underprivileged, organised fundraisers for food distribution drives, and facilitated Relay for Life events, which raised INR 2,00,000 for the MESH Foundation and Tata Memorial Hospital.