Top 5 "Co-Ed" Boarding School of India which are stunning too.

5. Lawrence School, Lovedale

    Locaion      - Lovedale, Tamil Nadu, India
    Established - 6 September 1858

 Lawrence School Building

The Lawrence School, Lovedale is an educational institution in Lovedale, located near Ootacamund, Tamil Nadu, India, and named for its founder, Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence.Lawrence had mooted the idea about the establishment of a chain of schools to provide education to the children of the deceased and serving soldiers and officers of the British army.

Lawrence was killed in the Indian Mutiny of 1857, also called India's First War of Independence.

Sir Henry's dream took shape and four such schools, known as Lawrence Asylum, were established in India: at Sanawar in 1847, and at Mount Abu in 1856, both during his lifetime; then at Lovedale, Ootacamund in 1858 and at Ghora Gali, Murree, in present-day Pakistan in 1860.

Notable Alumni: 

Ram Charan ( Actor )

Fahad Fazil ( Actor )

Mohommed Ali Shah (Actor and Social Activist)

Amish Tripathi (Author)

Sanaya Irani

Pratap Pothen (Actor, Director, Producer)

Sashi Reddi (serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, angel investor, a technologist and a philanthropist)

Vijay Menon (Actor)

Arundhati Roy (Writer)

 

4. The Lawrence School, Sanawar

    Locaion      - Kasauli Hills, Solan, Himachal Pradesh
    Established - 15 April 1847

The Lawrence School, Sanawar

The Lawrence School, Sanawar, is a private boarding school in Himachal Pradesh, established in 1847, whose history, influence, and wealth have made it one of the most prestigious schools in Asia.
It is located in the Kasauli Hills, District of Solan, Himachal Pradesh, India. Sanawar is about an hour drive from Chandigarh and six hours from New Delhi. The school was founded by Sir Henry Lawrence and his wife Honoria, is one of the oldest surviving boarding schools.

As the school is located in Sanawar, the school is popularly called "Sanawar". It is situated at a height of 1750 meters and spread over an area of 139 acres, heavily forested with pine, deodar and other conifer trees.

Notable Alumni

Omar Abdullah (Politician)

Sukhbir Singh Badal (Politician)

Captain Amarinder Singh (Politician)

Bikram Singh Majithia (Politician)

Ness Wadia (Industrialist)

Sanjay Dutt (Actor)

Papa CJ (Actor)

Saif Ali Khan (Actor)

Preity Zinta (Actor)

Pooja Bedi (Actor)

Documentary on The Lawrence School Sanawar   

3. There are two schools at no. 3-

3(A). The Assam Valley School, Balipara 

         Locaion      - Tezpur, Assam
         Established - 1995

Assam Valley School

Founded in 1995 by "The Williamson Magor Education Trust" and spread over a sprawling 95 sylvan hectares.This school has been established for the education of both boys and girls from primary through secondary school, from the State of Assam and beyond.

The Assam Valley School (AVS) is the only exclusive co-educational boarding school in the North East of India. It is affiliated to the Council for Indian School Certificate Examination.

In the midst of the extensive playing fields and the sprawling green campus, the school buildings stand aesthetically designed to accommodate the latest state-of-the-art infrastructure, to cater to the needs of  growing children and exemplify the traditions of local architecture.

3(B). Jain International Residential School, Bangalore 

         Locaion      - Jakkasandra Post, Kanakapura, Karnataka
         Established - 1999

Jain International Residential School, Bangalore

Jain International Residential School (JIRS), Bangalore is an institution also with weekly boarding facilities under The JGI Group on a 350 acres (1.4 km2) campus known as the Jain Global Campus which is JGI's main campus. JIRS has more than 750 students from India and from other countries.

The school is affiliated with Cambridge University's International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE, UK), the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE, India) and the International Baccalaureate Programme (IBDP) up to Grade 12.

 

2. Chinmaya International Residential School, Coimbatore 

    Locaion      - Siruvani Road, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
    Established - June 6, 1996

Chinmaya International Residential School, Coimbatore

Chinmaya International Residential School is a school run by the Chinmaya Mission spiritual organization. It is located 30 kilometres (19 mi) west of the city Coimbatore, in the foothills of western ghats. The area of the school is approximately 40.5 hectares (100 acres). It offers CBSE from grades 5 to 12 and IB for grades 11 to 12. It was founded in June 6, 1996.

 

1. Rishi Valley School, Chittoor 

    Locaion      - Chittoor District, Madanapalle, Andhra Pradesh
    Established - 1926

Rishi Valley School, Chittoor

Rishi Valley School is an Indian boarding school, founded by the philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti. Rishi Valley's setting is spectacular - some 375 acres of an independent valley, surrounded by ancient hills, and tiny villages. It is located close to the town of Madanapalle, Krishnamurti's birthplace, in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Rishi Valley is a three-hour drive from Bangalore and five hours from Chennai.

The school follows the ICSE board for the ninth and tenth grades and the ISC for the eleventh and twelfth grades. The school accepts students from the fourth through the twelfth grades (ages nine–eighteen).