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St. Mary's School
One of Pune's oldest schools, a 1866 Christian institution pairing ICSE and ISC with a small IB Diploma stream for the senior years.
In brief
One of Pune's oldest schools, a 1866 Christian institution pairing ICSE and ISC with a small IB Diploma stream for the senior years.
St Mary's sits in Camp, founded in 1866 for the daughters of British Army officers and run for decades by an Anglican order before passing to a lay administration. It teaches ICSE through Class 10 and ISC for Junior College, and was authorized as an IB World School delivering the Diploma Programme across Grades 11 and 12, giving senior students a route out of the national-board track. The campus is large but long-established, the ethos overtly Christian and traditional, and the academic record strong, with ICSE and ISC results that regularly produce city and national rank-holders. It suits families wanting a disciplined, examination-focused education with a heritage name and the option of an international diploma at the top end. Published annual tuition on the ICSE side runs roughly INR 1,68,000 to 2,50,000; IB Diploma fees are quoted on application.
Reviews
A heritage academic school where the reputation rests on results and long-serving staff, and the reservations cluster around how traditional and tightly run it feels day to day.
Positives
- Teaching staff. Families single out experienced, long-tenured teachers, with many staff having spent fifteen to twenty-five years at the school, and credit them for taking responsibility for results so that private tuition is rarely needed.
- Academic standing. Parents value the strong ICSE and ISC track record and the missionary-school atmosphere, and the school managed remote classes capably during the pandemic period.
Considerations
- Pressure and ethos. Some parents describe a heavy academic load and an environment that can feel stressful for children who are not naturally top of the class, and the management style reads as traditional and formal rather than warm.
- Fit for outside families. A parent who moved in from another city found the experience much harder than the local reputation suggested, pointing to a culture that suits families already familiar with its conventions.
- Admissions and communication. Reaching the office and getting clear answers during admissions comes up as a recurring frustration, with some applicants reporting slow or absent responses.
Leadership
Mrs Caroline Diane Ross
Mrs Caroline Diane Ross, M. Com, B Ed, has been in the field of Education for over twenty-two years of which five years have been in a leadership position. She is dynamic, talented and accomplished and is a speaker on varied topics of education at national and international platforms. She is poised to take the school forward and we assure you that your wards are in competent hands.
Academic results
- ICSE 2023 - 1st Position 99.2% - Ananya Bapat, Anusmita Sen
- ICSE 2022 - All India Topper - 1st Position 99.8% - Hargun Kaur Matharu
- ICSE 2022 - All India Second Rank holder - 2nd Position 99.6% - Shivani Deo
- ICSE 2017 - 1st Position 98.80% - Mrunmayee Nerlikar, Aishwarya Mahindrakar
- ICSE 2017 - 2nd Position 98.60% - Anoosheh Mirkhushal, Aditi Dindorkar, Svadhi Jain
- ICSE 2017 - 3rd Position 98.20% - Priyanka R Katari, Saniya Maheshwari, Nirmayi Kelkar
- ISC 2023 - 2nd Rank 98.3% - Mihika Gupte
- ISC 2019 - 3rd National topper 99.5% - Vishruti Ranjan
- ISC 2017 - 1st Position 97.3% - Ishita Karna, Ananya Rane
- ISC 2017 - 2nd Position 96.8% - Sneha Agrawal
- ISC 2017 - 3rd Position 96.8% - Stephen Thomas