Ryan International Group of Institutions


Ryan International Schools are a group of private educational institutions in India founded in 1976 by Dr. Augustine Francis Pinto. The Ryan Group started its first school in Mumbai in 1976 and currently has 135+ schools located in India, along with international footprints in many countries. The school has presence in major locations of Maharashtra, Delhi-NCR and Karnataka.The group is in collaboration with universities in USA, UK, Germany, France, Switzerland, Australia to facilitate learning across global boundaries.
Unlike other Indian private chains, RIGI has a centralized command over all of it schools and doesn't follow a franchisee model, and is arguably India’s largest private sector schools chain. According to a report by News 18 on September 2017, the group employs over 18,000 faculty members, and over 30,000 students pass from Ryan schools annually. Students of Ryan International Schools are commonly known as Ryanites.

Origins

In the initial attempts to set up an English Medium school for the middle class in Mumbai, Dr Augustine Francis Pinto, the founder-promoter and the chairman of RIGI set up a small school in 1974, which failed to take off. However, he and Grace Albuquerque, who was a teacher at that time, eventually succeeded in establishing St. Xavier’s High School in Borivali East, a Mumbai suburb. With the help off Anthony Silvapinto the new head of OLPS School, Chembur. This endeavor with The Silva pintos has led to a long lasting bond between the two families.

List of schools

Ryan International School, Vasant Kunj

The Vasant Kunj branch of Ryan is often called the Pride of Delhi. It is CBSE affiliated and has various meritorious students and excels in academics, sports, NCC, MUNs and a lot more.

Ryan International School, Malad

Ryan International School has two separate schools in Malad under CBSE and ICSE affiliations. The ICSE school in Malad was awarded the Quality School Governance Accreditation by the National Accreditation Board for Education and Training in 2014.

Ryan International School, Greater Noida

Ryan International School Greater Noida was established in 2003, and currently has a strength of 3200 students and a staff of 117 members.

Ryan International, Noida

is run by the St. Xavier's Educational Society, and was established in the year 1992. The school had 8 students when it first started.

Ryan International School, Goregaon

Ryan International School, Goregaon was established in 2004 as a Ryan International Group of School and is affiliated with the Indian Council for Secondary Education, New Delhi and the Cambridge International Examinations, UK. The Goregaon based school provides for the French language option, Media Studies and the usage of Thin Clients in the secondary section.

Ryan International School, Chembur

Founded in the year 2009, Ryan International School, Chembur was started with classes from Play Group & Montessori up to Grade 7. The school has been following the ICSE course pattern.

Ryan International School, Kandivali

Situated in North Mumbai, Ryan International School, Kandivali was founded on June 12, 2006 and follows the CBSE curriculum.

Ryan International School, Raebareli

Ryan International School, Raebareli is one of the RIGI schools in Uttar Pradesh which is a CBSE affiliated co-educational facility with classes from 1 to 12. The school has a student strength of 2158

Academics

Ryan International Group follows CBSE, ICSE, SSC-HSC, and IGCSE International Baccalaureate - Primary Years Programme in different schools under its umbrella. In the 2019, 10th and 12th Results, students of Ryan International Group secured top ranks in district, school and national level in both the ICSE & CBSE formats.
The schools in Sharjah and Abu Dhabi have adopted the Tata ClassEdge technology

Awards and Recognition

International Children’s Festival of Performing Arts

The School hold yearly International Children’s Festival of Performing Arts . The 14th edition of the event held in January 2016 in Mumbai with the theme ‘Celebrating Diversity’. The event attracted over 40000 students including notable individuals from India and 17 different countries

Controversies

On 08 September 2017 there was a murder case of class 2 student Pradyuman Thakur in Ryan International School Gurugram which was planned by a class 11 student to postpone the exam and PTM. The others students of the same school and their parents told that violence, bullying, ragging is a common thing in this school and the school authorities don't take any step towards school security, instead of that they try their best to hide these activities. After this murder case the principal Neerja Batra was suspended and there was a case filed against Ryan Group and Pinto family.

Alumni

This section contains only alumni for whom there is a Wikipedia article.