Nursery Admissions: Overwhelming response for BMC’s Mumbai Public Schools offering non-state board curriculum
With rebranding of BMC schools as Mumbai Public Schools, it started a new trend of offering a more popular non-state board curriculum in civic schools in 2020
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Mumbai Public Schools receive overwhelming response for nursery admissions. (Source: File Photo)The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation-run Mumbai Public Schools, which offer non-state board curriculum such as Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and Indian Certificate of School Education (ICSE), continue to get overwhelming response to its call for admissions. As the admission application process for the academic year 2025-26 concluded on Wednesday, a total of 2,459 applications have been received for 1,242 seats available in a total of 21 MPS offering various non-state board curriculums.
These applications are all for nursery class admissions which is the entry level stage in pre-primary section at any school. BMC education officer Rajesh Kankal said, “This clearly indicates great response for civic schools in Mumbai. This decision to offer more popular non-state board curriculums in MPS has really attracted many parents to civic schools of varied demographics. We now see children from well-to-do-families taking admission in MPS due to good quality of education coupled with many facilities that are offered to students at civic schools.”
The civic body will follow the lottery process to finally allot seats to applicants as the number of applications is almost double than available seats. According to officials from BMC’s education department, with so many applications, the lottery is the best to offer transparent seat allotment.
Civic schools have traditionally offered Maharashtra State Board curriculum. However, with rebranding of BMC schools as MPS, it started a new trend of offering a more popular non-state board curriculum in civic schools in 2020. Even as it started with one school each affiliated to CBSE and ICSE curriculum, it soon started offering more such schools considering the demand. Currently there are 21 Mumbai Public Schools where BMC education department offers different non-state board curriculum.
Out of 21 MPS, there are 18 which offer CBSE curriculum which is most popular among MPS parents whereas there is one school each offering ICSE, IGCSE (International General Certificate of Secondary Education) and IB (International Baccalaureate) curriculum. With a greater number of schools, there are a total of 1,122 seats available for admissions in CBSE schools. For newer IGCSE and IB, there are 28 seats per school. Whereas there are a total 68 seats available at the single ICSE school. Further, depending on the popularity of schools, there are some MPS who have received more admission applications than others.
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