Being named the #1 AI-integrated learning school in India is not a marketing line at Yashmay World School — it is a verdict from the Education World Grand Jury, awarded in the Indian School Rankings 2025-26. For a CISCE-affiliated, co-educational school in Gonda, Uttar Pradesh, teaching Nursery to Class XII, this national recognition places a school from the Awadh region of Eastern UP at the front of one of the most closely watched conversations in Indian education: how technology and artificial intelligence are woven into everyday teaching and learning.

What makes the honours on this page meaningful for parents is their consistency. Yashmay has now been recognised by Education World for a third consecutive year, across different rankings and different criteria — a pattern that speaks to a settled institutional culture rather than a single, lucky season.

What the #1 India AI-Integrated Learning award actually recognises

The Education World Grand Jury awards are decided by a panel of educationists rather than by popularity or paid placement, and the AI-Integrated Learning category looks specifically at how deeply technology is embedded in the day-to-day life of a school — not at whether a few devices exist in a cupboard. Being ranked #1 in India for AI-Integrated Learning in 2025-26 tells parents that, at Yashmay, technology serves teaching across the school rather than sitting in a single showcase room.

On the ground, that recognition is supported by the same campus you can visit: a 25-acre site in Gonda with 40+ laboratories and co-curricular activities, and a 1:9 student-teacher ratio that keeps individual attention possible even as classrooms become more technology-rich. The award validates an approach; the campus and ratio are what allow that approach to reach each child.

• A national #1 ranking decided by an independent education jury, not by advertising spend.
• Technology and AI integrated across the school — reflected in 40+ labs and co-curricular facilities.
• A 1:9 student-teacher ratio, so technology supports personal attention rather than replacing it.

Three consecutive years of national recognition

The 2025-26 #1 India award is the latest in an unbroken run. In the Education World India School Rankings, Yashmay was ranked #1 in Gonda as a day-cum-boarding school for 2024-25, and in 2023-24 the school was placed in the Top 10 in India and #2 in Uttar Pradesh for Best Technology Integration. Together these mark a third consecutive year of recognition from the same respected ranking body.

For a school founded as recently as 2 April 2017, this trajectory matters. It shows that strong technology integration and a credible day-cum-boarding programme were established early and sustained — the kind of steady, repeated acknowledgement that parents weighing a long-term, twelve-year commitment can reasonably rely on.

• 2025-26: Ranked #1 in India for AI-Integrated Learning (Education World Grand Jury).
• 2024-25: Ranked #1 in Gonda as a day-cum-boarding school (Education World).
• 2023-24: Top 10 in India and #2 in Uttar Pradesh for Best Technology Integration.

What national recognition means for your child

Rankings are useful to parents precisely because they are external. An award from a national jury offers an independent reference point that sits alongside your own campus visit and conversations — a way to sense-check that the experience promised in a prospectus is genuinely being delivered. A #1 India position for AI-integrated learning signals that Yashmay students are learning in an environment built for the skills and tools that will shape their futures.

Equally important is what these honours do not change: the fundamentals of a Yashmay education. The school remains CISCE-affiliated, teaching Nursery to Class XII as a co-educational institution, with Day, Day-cum-Boarding and Full Residential options for families across Gonda and the wider Awadh catchment near Ayodhya and Lucknow. The recognition is the proof; the consistent, technology-rich, well-resourced education is the substance behind it.