5 Best Schools in South Mumbai in 2025

Top 5 schools in South Mumbai in 2025

The Cathedral & John Connon School (ICSE/ISC and IGCSE/A levels)

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Founded in the year 1860, The Cathedral & John Connon School is one of the oldest schools in South Mumbai, located at Purushottamdas Thakurdas Marg, Azad Maidan, Fort. It continues to maintain the highest standards of academic excellence and holistic enrichment of students via a wide range of co-curricular and extra-curricular activities that foster personal development and social awareness. After Grade 8, students can choose from the ICSE and ISC national curricula or the IGCSE, IBDP and AP foreign curricula. The senior school building, majestically sculpted in stone with the fusion of Gothic and Indian architecture, stands tall through the century as an icon of excellence, resilience, and strength that the school aims to imbibe in students as well to prepare them for a promising future.

Aditya Birla World Academy (IB, IGCSE)

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This popular institution, founded in the year 2008 at tardeo, Mumbai exemplifies world-class education through its proactive learning approach and skill-enhancing pedagogy that attempts to develop a child's intrinsic skills and fortitude via extra-curricular innovations such as Robotics & Aeromodelling, Model United Nations (MUN), Creative Writing, 3D Printing, Spoken Word, Young Auteurs, Kickboxing, and Music, along with regular academics. The key learning spaces include robotics lab, art room, library, music rooms, computer room, science laboratories, dance studio, auditorium, university counselling center, wellbeing zone, infirmary, and cafeteria.

The cutting-edge infrastructure boasted by the school features spacious, well-lit, and Wi-Fi enabled classrooms equipped with LCD projectors, screens, and advanced speakers for ensuring comfort along with high-tech instruction (according to Economic Times).

Bombay International School (IB and CAIE)

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Since its establishment in 1962 at Gamdevi, Mumbai, the Bombay International School believes in integrated learning through Expression, Action & Reflection. It achieves its ambitions of academic leadership and comprehensive child growth with bespoke facilities such as advanced science laboratories, a voluminous library, creative studios, multipurpose hall and stage, athletic provisions, art rooms, gym, AV room, Hangout Spaces for informal discussion, collaboration, and creative thinking, and a lot more.

The school has dual campuses. One in Gilbert Building at Babulnath, housing Pre-Primary, Middle, Senior School, and the IB Diploma programmes, and the Junior Campus at Marine Lines for Primary students (Grades 1–5). The school hosts a robust Student Resource Centre (SRC) that runs various programs to support & nurture students, and SEE (Social Emotional Ethical) Learning that is an academic collaboration between Emory University & His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

J. B. Petit High School (ICSE)

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Established in 1865, the J.B. Petit High School for Girls, located at Fort, Mumbai is named after Jehangir Bomanji Petit. The school has a rich history of record-breaking performances in Athletics, Badminton, Basketball, Chess, Football, Gymnastics, Mini Tennis, Roller Skating, Equestrian Sports, Golf, Lawn Tennis, Martial Arts, Squash, Swimming, and Table Tennis.

Students participate in the above sports at the MSSA / DSO and club levels. Co-curriculars include Art, Cookery, Music, Choir, Speech & Drama, Dance, Physical Education & Yoga, and Computer Studies. Other programmes initiated with the vision of developing the qualities of co-operation, leadership, team work, and delegation among children are Model United Nations (MUN), student exchange, and club associations such as the one with Aquasail club, where kids gain knowledge of helming, controlling the sails, and an understanding of the various aspects of sailing.

Overall, the school provides an educational experience that is exciting, challenging, and truly transformative to bring about physical, intellectual, emotional, social, and spiritual development of the leaders of future society.

B. D. Somani International School (IB and IGCSE boards)

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Founded in 2006 and located at Cuffe Parade in Mumbai, this reputed school exhibits a student-centered approach to learning and teaching that helps create responsible and mindful citizens of tomorrow. It boasts 100 % college placements. The creative and intellectual endeavours that play a vital role in the all-encompassing evolution of young minds here include Student-Led Science Journal – BEAMS, Model United Nations (BDS MUN), Extensive Sports Facilities, music, theatre, art performances, Outdoor Learning Zones, etc. The cutting-edge infrastructure comprises air-conditioned classrooms and cafeteria, state-of-the-art labs, basketball court, cricket pitch, football turf, and auditorium.

All these schools are knowledge powerhouses, located across prime locations in South Mumbai. Real estate projects based in their vicinity receive overwhelming responses from families with growing children, looking for the best learning opportunities for kids.

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