here - City Montessori School

Lucknow school placed in
Guinness World Records
for highest student
enrolment in year
The City Montessori School in Lucknow, India, has got a place in the latest
edition of Guinness Book of World Records for enrolling highest number of
students in a year. The Daily Mail reported a record enrolment of 39,437
pupils in this school for the 2010-2011 academic year. In 2012, its
enrollment has reached over 45,000 pupils, which is a world record.
The school was founded in 1959 by Bharti Gandhi and Jagdish Gandhi.
Being inspired by ideologies of Mahatma Gandhi, Vinoba Bhave and
others, a young and idealistic Jagdish Gandhi went out to create a school
in 1959 with just five children on roll, no personal wealth, which later came
to known as City Montessori School. It is affiliated to the Council for the
Indian School Certificate Examinations and offers education up to undergraduate
level. Earlier,the school has been ranked 6th in the "most
respected secondary schools" in India list compiled by IMRB in 2007.
The 2013 Guinness World Records is published in 22 languages in more
than 100 countries, and is full of surprising stories.
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