India Residential & Boarding Schools Map 2026
An interactive map of India's private residential schools, also called boarding schools, offering International Baccalaureate (IB), Cambridge, Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) and Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) curricula. Filter by board and type, search by name, and zoom into any state, district or city.
Where India's residential schools are
Every private residential and day-cum-residential school we could verify, mapped across India. Filter by board, narrow to full boarding or day-cum-boarding, search by name, then click any marker for detail.
525 schools, four curricula
A working census of India's private residential and day-cum-residential schools across the IB, Cambridge, ICSE and CBSE systems (90 full-boarding, 435 day-cum-residential), geo-tagged for competitive and site-selection analysis.
What is included. Private residential schools (447 ICSE, 30 IB, 24 Cambridge, 24 CBSE) plus a small set of marquee cross-board campuses, drawn from the EducationWorld India School Rankings 2025-26 boarding and international categories, the CISCE official school directory, and Digital Learning rankings. Government residential schools (Sainik, Navodaya, Kendriya Vidyalaya, military) are excluded.
How to read it. Each pin is one school, coloured by board. Full-boarding campuses are solid; day-cum-boarding are lighter. Clusters expand as you zoom. This is the competitive landscape RAYSolute uses when advising on a new residential school: where the demand pools, where the whitespace is, and who the real local competitors are.
For a fee-banded, enrolment-weighted version of this database with campus acreage, leadership and feasibility benchmarking, contact RAYSolute.
Who this is for. Promoters scoping a new residential school use this map to see which boards and formats already have coverage in a target state or district, so a new campus is positioned against real local supply rather than a national average. Private equity and venture capital investors evaluating an existing residential-school chain use it to sanity-check the target's stated footprint against verified competitors nearby. Corporate groups and trusts already running a school use it to identify under-served districts before committing to a second or third campus.
Limits of this data. This is a market-overview census, not a live enrolment or fee database: marker positions are locality-level, not exact street addresses, and a school's board mix or boarding status can change between our verification passes. Use it to identify where to look closely, then verify specifics for any individual school before making a site-selection or investment decision. See our feasibility study service for a bankable, site-specific version of this analysis.