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Boarding schools in India

1,606 verified full boarding, day-cum-boarding and day boarding schools across the country. Explore by city, compare fees and shortlist in one place.

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Top boarding cities

Cities with the most verified boarding schools.

Bangalore
131 boarding schools · Karnataka
Dehradun
71 boarding schools · Uttarakhand
Delhi
46 boarding schools · Delhi
Hyderabad
41 boarding schools · Telangana
Mumbai
40 boarding schools · Maharashtra
Coimbatore
30 boarding schools · Tamil Nadu
Kolkata
27 boarding schools · West Bengal
Panchgani
24 boarding schools · Maharashtra
Lucknow
24 boarding schools · Uttar Pradesh
Varanasi
24 boarding schools · Uttar Pradesh
Jaipur
21 boarding schools · Rajasthan
Nainital
20 boarding schools · Uttarakhand
Pune
19 boarding schools · Maharashtra
Bhubaneswar (BBSR)
18 boarding schools · Odisha
Patna
18 boarding schools · Bihar
Darjeeling
16 boarding schools · West Bengal
Jhunjhunu
15 boarding schools · Rajasthan
Sonipat
14 boarding schools · Haryana
Ranchi
14 boarding schools · Jharkhand
Indore
14 boarding schools · Madhya Pradesh
Chennai
14 boarding schools · Tamil Nadu
Shimla
13 boarding schools · Himachal Pradesh
Rajkot
13 boarding schools · Gujarat
Jabalpur
13 boarding schools · Madhya Pradesh

Featured boarding schools

Top-rated boarding schools with complete profiles.

Boarding schools in India

1,606 boarding schools across India are listed on AdmissionSchool — covering full residential, day-cum-boarding and day-boarding formats. Families weighing boarding usually start with the format and the city, then the board and finally the campus culture.

Picking the right format

Full boarding makes most sense when distance, family schedule or pedagogical fit clearly favour it. Day-cum-boarding offers a middle path — academic structure and after-school programme without the full residential commitment. The format question is worth settling before you start shortlisting individual schools.

What separates good boarding

On a campus visit, ask about dorm-to-warden ratio, weekend programme, food (allergy handling, hygiene, variety), medical infrastructure on campus, anti-bullying and homesickness protocols, and the school's contact policy with home. These five questions usually surface the biggest differences between two superficially similar boarding schools.

Use the city tiles

Boarding fees and infrastructure vary noticeably by city. The city tiles below let you scope to the metros most families consider — Dehradun, Bangalore, Pune, Mussoorie, Ooty and the Delhi NCR belt account for the majority of established residential schools.

Related on AdmissionSchool

For related shortlists on AdmissionSchool, see boarding schools in India and CBSE schools across cities. Each page carries its own filters so you can layer board, area and budget without starting from scratch.