FUN LEARN DAY BOARDING SCHOOL

Kolkata, India

2024 Enrollment: 65 Girls

Edu-GIRLS Support To Date: $41K

Background: Founded in 2014, Fun Learn Day Boarding School (FLDBS) serves underprivileged learners in Metiabruz, Kolkata, providing inclusive English-medium high-quality education to economically weaker sections where access to quality education, especially for girls, is limited.

Vision: We promote transformation in the lives of children in our economically disadvantaged community by empowering them through building a strong academic foundation and investing in their personal development to get into professional careers, become financially independent and leaders in their community.

Our Program : We aim to enhance program quality through increased technology use and improved teaching skills, alongside manageable expansion. Thus, we envisage phasing in the Ten Mantras model over upto seven years starting with

quality teachers, with strong training and skill improvement programs
nutrition and health
safe transport
independent learning assessments, including, ASSET Test for students and teachers
performance incentives; and
active campaigns to increase enrollment

Future Plans:

We recognize that our future plans to deliver highest quality education at reasonable cost are not financially viable at the current small class sizes and at the current low enrollment. Moving forward:

We envisage enrolment of about 250, by running multiple shifts. With additional floors added, the capacity could be as high as 500.
Our goal over time is to increase average class size to student: teacher ratio to 1:15 and ideally 20.
With the support of Edu-GIRLS, we plan to offer totally cost free education to our new girls staring from the 2025-26 academic year while existing girls will also get totally cost free education starting in the 2026-27 academic year.