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The Doon School
The Doon School (informally ''Doon School'' or ''Doon'') is a boys-only independent boarding school in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. It was founded in 1935 by Satish Ranjan Das, a Kolkata lawyer. He prevised a school modelled on the British public school, but alive to Indian ambitions and desires.〔 The school's first headmaster was an Englishman, Arthur E. Foot, who had spent nine years as a science master at Eton College, England before coming to Doon, and returned to England right after India's independence. The present headmaster is Peter McLaughlin, who has occupied the post since 2009 and is the ninth headmaster of the school. He is a member of Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.〔(The Doon School - HMC )〕
The school is a member of G20 Schools and Round Square group.〔Round Square Project report - India http://www.roundsquare.org/perch/resources/rsis-news-march-2013.pdf〕〔(G20 Schools - College Confidential )〕 Doon houses roughly 500 pupils aged 13 to 18. Admission to the school is based on a competitive entrance examination and an interview. Every year in January and April, the school admits pupils aged 13 in Grade 7 (known as D-form) and aged 14 in Grade 8 (C-form) respectively. Doon pupils take the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education in tenth grade and are thereafter offered two strands for the final two years: International Baccalaureate (IB) or Indian School Certificate (ISC). The school began offering the IB curriculum only in 2006, before which all pupils had to sit the ISC examinations in twelfth grade.
Doon has consistently been ranked the best residential school of India by media such as ''BBC'', ''The Times of India'' and ''Outlook''. Although the school has often been cited as 'Eton of India' by media outlets such as the BBC, The Guardian, Financial Times, The Economist, The Daily Telegraph and Forbes, it strongly eschews the label.〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02c3zgq〕〔http://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/aug/13/fiction.arundhatiroy〕〔(The Doon School: Grooming Ground For India's Wealthy Kids - Forbes )〕〔(Batting for all to enjoy the fruits of prosperity - Telegraph )〕〔(The rise & rise of Anish Kapoor Inc. - Telegraph )〕 Doon remains a boys-only school despite continued pressure from political leaders, including President Pratibha Patil, to become coeducational. Old boys of the school are commonly known as ''Doscos''. Although the total number of Doscos is relatively small (estimated at 5,000 since the school's founding), they include some of India's most prominent politicians, government officials and business leaders. The best known alumnus is former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
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