Welcome to City Montessori school in Lucknow,India. Despite its vast size, no child is left behind, and with nearly half of pupils scoring 90% or more in national testsAt 7:15am in the northern Indian city of Lucknow,a stream of children flows through the gates of the Kanpur Road campus of City Montessori school. A dozen helpers pull school bags off roof racks and direct traffic to preserve things moving. Every so often a chowkidar (gatekeeper) urges a laggard along: “Chalo, Beta, and chalo.” Nearly an hour later,they’re still arriving.
It’s not easy to score more than 7500 five- to 17-year-old students into a single school building, but that’s only a small piece of the puzzle for City Montessori (or CMS) – recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s largest school. The institution caters to some 52000 pre-primary, or primary and secondary students distributed across 20 campuses in the city.
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Source: theguardian.com