Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Schools in Coimbatore

It was mid of October 2009, when my mom called me from India to inform that LKG admission for one of the well-known schools in Coimbatore has closed. I was surprised to hear that admissions are closed 7.5 months before the start date. I learned that getting into admissions for standard higher than LKG is difficult. So, I decided to send my daughter to India to begin her schooling (LKG) as we plan to return back to India (R2I) in near future. My plan was to begin searching during early 2010 for the same admission year. But, the news from my Mom has set fire in me and pushed everything else to lower priority.

I began to search for good schools in Coimbatore through R2I Forums and friends/relatives. I literally spent quite a lot of midnight hours to collect information and coordinate the school hunting with my friends/relatives in India. There was no one place to find a consolidated list of schools, so I thought of compiling one to help me and, perhaps, others who are looking for one. I have compiled a decent list and uploaded to Google docs. I'll update as and when I gather more information. If you have any information, please send it to me. Alternatively, depending on the interest, I plan to give permissions to all to edit the same. The document can be found at Schools in Coimbatore.

Here are my learnings from this exercise:
  1. I didn't spend or invest this much time and effort for my undergrad college admission. So, I would encourage to do the research much early on.
  2. Many schools admit their preschool student batch to LKG. So, getting into LKG has also become little difficult these days.
  3. Get started in August month itself for an admission for subsequent year. August may be too early for some schools, but monitor it twice and once a week in August and September month respectively. Admissions get hot during October month, if not before.
  4. If you have a choice, enroll your kid in PreKG itself in the same school. PreKG campus may be far from the main campus. So, you need to make a choice whether to put your kid in a preschool nearby just to avoid travel for initial two years. And, later spend time in hunting for a good school or compromise your kid's education in other school.
  5. It's better to make a choice on Matric/CBSE/ICSE schools early on. I decided to go for CBSE, based on feedback from my friends and little research on Internet. There are limited options for ICSE. There are quite a few CBSE schools now. Matric schools are abundant. Based on your selection, you may have to start early. For Matric schools, I believe December end/January would be right time to start the activity.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Sudhagar,
Thanks so much for compiling & sharing such useful information.

- Charu Selvan

Anonymous said...

Hi Suthakar
Great compilation....Thanks a lot.
Rj.

Unknown said...

Big Thanks for providing very needful information

Reeds World School said...

There are many Top schools provides good education in coimbatore, India. In the list, need to know why Reeds World School is best out of all. Anybody have an idea?

SSVM World School said...

Hey! Thank you for sharing such in-depth information on schools in Coimbatore. I loved it and very well compiled. Keep up the good work.