Nursery Admissions in Delhi NCR 2025-26

I would like to share my feedback and analysis which might be useful for others to shortlist the schools. I am sharing my own opinion and others may agree or disagree with it.

Most of us are confused and we ourselves do not know what we want. Many parents are following the legacy trends and they are doing what others are doing.

During this period we visited / applied in following traditional and International schools.

1) Shivnadar (Visited and found good, not eligible because of age)

2) TSMS (Visited but did not like their admin also Not eligible for Nursery)

3) Step by Step (Not eligible for Nursery)

4) Amity (Second round is tomorrow but removed from our list)

5) Apeejay (Removed from our list)

6) Cambridge (Applied online but removed from our list)

7) GIIS (Visited the school, found it expensive considering it’s infra, experience, size of campus. Hence did not do further research)

8) Kothari International

9) Sommerville (Applied and removed from our list)

10) Khaitan (Applied and removed from our list)

11) Lotus Valley (Applied and removed from our list)

My priority is to look for a school which primarily focuses on overall development and less on the academics during initial age (upto 2^nd Std)

From our own experience we meet many children who know a lot but don’t speak in front of strangers. Many kids are very intelligent and speak a lot when they are at home but when asked outside they are lacking courage. They have some sort of shyness.

I want my kid to be confident. I would be happy if he has 100% confidence and 70% knowledge. I don’t want my child to lack because of stage fear, public speaking phobia, lack of confidence, poor communication, English etc.

During the process of admission some of the schools have not used internet technology to fill the forms online, display the results on their website. Today when everything is getting digital, why should I go for such school who is not aware what is going in the IT world and how to use it to save our time and efforts. If I am expecting that such schools will keep my child well informed and aware about the digital world then I am wrong. This is very funny that some schools are still using courier service to inform the parents about the interaction date and that too when email is pretty much in use since last 16 years. Hence we straight away removed such schools from our list.

Next are those traditional schools that are focussing on both academics and co-curricular activities. We dropped those schools from our list because of following two reasons -

1- In nursery class every child needs special attention and if children student ratio is high then weak child will always be weak.

2- For first four and five years child needs healthy and playful environment where he learns faster with fun activities and gains confidence. After visiting various schools, we have found that international schools are giving more attention in this area.

Reason Why We as a parent selected Kothari International-

1- We met some of the schools children personally and judged their confidence level, whether they are outspoken, and their communication etc and we were very satisfied.

2- We did not ask parents about the feedback of the school because 80% of the parents say good words about their child’s school.

3- We personally visited the school at random time and noticed following things -

A) We spoke to two teachers of nursery class. The teachers are extremely good in English communication and also have different accent. Here when I say English that means fluent English and not Hinglish. Hinglish = English + Hindi --> which we see in most of the schools.

B) One of the teachers of nursery class was doing some sort of play rehearsal in theatre hall and kid on the stage was holding mike in his hand and speaking on the stage. This is what I look for in a school of today’s world.

c) Security is very tight because kid will never come out of the school premises even when he boards or leaves the school bus. I noticed that many good schools are weak in this area.

d) Teacher student ratio is low hence child will get good attention and at the same time teacher personally remembers every trait of her student. This factor plays key role for development of the child.

Though monthly charges are high as compared to other schools but at the same time this school is also equipped with AC class rooms and buses, meal facility and good security which are not available with those schools who are charging less.

I have read at many places in this forum that school is not good in terms of academics. Now I would like to ask myself few questions.

1- Am I looking for a school which loads my kid with so much of homework that instead of child, I have to complete it daily.

2- Do I want my child to speak poems in front of me but not in front of my friends.

If the child does not come out of shyness during initial period of his / her childhood then no matter what he will always have less confidence and later on we can’t fill this gap.

I am also not taking long picture of 14 Yrs (Nursery to 12th) to finalize the school. At this stage I would consider 1st four years to finalize the school. After 4 years I will take a call what should I do next, should I change the school or should I continue with same one.

We have noticed that many schools have made the entire admission process tiresome and tedious just to create hype and to create their value. After making 6 rounds to the school and getting the admission we feel as if we have won the battle. But before taking the admission just ask yourself how much analysis you have done to find out about the school. Don’t just select a school because others are going for it. We should know that many schools used to be good years back but they are still enchasing their reputation and brand value.

My sincere thanks to Sakshi, team and to all the parents for their support and guidance.

If you have any query, please send me an email at kjspeakasia1@gmail.com

Wish everyone all the best.

Permalink Reply by Amita pathak on September 9, 2015 at 5:21pm

A GREAT ANALYSIS

Permalink Reply by priyanka on September 9, 2015 at 5:21pm

Thanks for writing such a long post. I really appreciate it. N I strongly agree with u dat some schools are doing so many rounds just to create hype.

All the best to u :)

Permalink Reply by Shweta Sengar on September 9, 2015 at 5:34pm

Congratulations arti :). I really liked your thought process. Very well researched and logical post.

Permalink Reply by Prashant Goel on September 9, 2015 at 5:56pm

Many Congratulations Aarti! A very thoughtful post.

Permalink Reply by Niki Bazaz on September 9, 2015 at 6:25pm

Hi ,
I have just dropped an email to you

Thanks
Niki

Permalink Reply by Shipra Shekhar on September 9, 2015 at 10:38pm

Hi Aarti good thought process few days back when I walked out of St Frances without submitting the from people around me were looking at me with surprise but I had similar thought in mind the way they made parents wait in huge lines inside and out side gate you could realize it was pure mismanagement n a way to create hype . If a school goes not respect my time now will it teach value of time to my child .you had people dragging outside gate on road for a long while.
You are very right it is more of hype and less substance in case of most of schools.

Permalink Reply by Arti on September 9, 2015 at 11:57pm

True Shipra,

Some of the schools have no discipline and no value for others time. They are just doing business. All the schools asking same set of question. Most common question the principal asks ..'Why my school ?'

As if he / she does not know that all the parents are applying in many schools.

Permalink Reply by Nagendra Singh Dhani on September 10, 2015 at 9:51am

Hi Shipra

Rightly said. Infact i also found the admission process of St.Francis to be worst & they just wanted to show parents ,, how much sought after we are. Quite disgusting......

Permalink Reply by Sid on September 10, 2015 at 7:54pm

Good post. I don't know how easy will it be to shift schools later, but I assume something will always be available. Just one comment though... a lot of the problems that parents are facing are being created by the school management and not the teachers themselves. The Principal (who will perhaps have nothing to do with primary kids) and the management are responsible when they choose not to use new age technology (APJ), or use it in a bad way (FAS), or make parents wait and waste their time (St. Francis, and to a certain extent, AIS too, I feel).

I'm hoping the primary teachers when they teach will be nice and experienced in the old and traditional schools and will be able to manage the 40-50 kids. If that happens, I too intend to look for a different school for my kid.

And you are right. I got through APJ, and just wanted the admission process to end right there :)